Talk:TerraMax

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Hi. I'm Zephyr, and this is the first article that I have created. I originally made it in the early summer because of a report on the Darpa Grand Challenge that I was writing for school. I eventually decided I should come back here and add something to the discussion page. Please let me know if I have done anything wrong.Zephyr817 01:30, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

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Uploaded picture: Image:Terramax-DARPAChallenge04.jpg and added it to the main article. Zephyr817 02:26, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

Several more cc-by-sa images available at http://hobbiton.thisside.net/darpa/ (about half-way down). GeeJo ^(t)⁄_(c) • 11:48, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

VaMP vs TerraMax & Kat-5 & Stanley & H1ghlander and Sandstorm

Five cars finished the course of the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge: TerraMax & Kat-5 & Stanley & H1ghlander and Sandstorm. It is interesting to compare them to the earlier VaMP robot car of Mercedes-Benz and Ernst Dickmanns. My sources are mostly Wikipedia and the rest of the web. In 2005, the DARPA cars drove 212 km without human intervention. In 1995, the VaMP drove up to 158 km without human intervention. The DARPA cars drove on a dirt road flattened by a steamroller. The VaMP drove on the Autobahn. In both cases the road boundaries were easily identifiable by computer vision. Like many commercial cars, the DARPA cars used GPS navigation, essentially driving from one waypoint to the next (almost 3000 waypoints for the entire course, several waypoints per curve). Like humans, the VaMP drove by vision only. The DARPA cars reached speeds up to 40 km/h. The VaMP reached speeds up to 180 km/h. So the VaMP was more than four times faster although its computer processors apparently were 1000 times slower. The DARPA cars did not encounter any traffic but there were a few stationary obstacles. The VaMP drove in traffic around moving obstacles, passing other cars. Interestingly, the 2007 Urban Grand Challenge is trying to repeat something the VaMP was already able to do 12 years ago. Willingandable 17:29, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

I added your section to this page...see Stanley's page for my reasons for the editing Kivaan 21:07, 25 August 2007 (UTC)