Another year, another DARPA race

First off

http://news.com.com/2300-11394_3-5889028-1.html Pretty pictures.

 

The government is smart sometimes. Why test a few random agencies to build one or two designs for $500,000,000 when you can tap into the university system of the United States and pay $2 million (and get at least 23 models and many times that more in different perspectives). We will no longer drive to school and work, we will be passengers in our independently moving vehicles that get a smidgen from us where we want to go and get us there as best they can. Highway travel will be in the hundreds of MPH because there will be no human error. And traffic will significantly lessen because computers will be able to regulate traffic flow significantly better due to it having access to larger amounts of data on a large scale and, on a small scale, the vehicles will wirelessly, instantly communicate their paths to each other. There is no ego in a computer...not until we program them in at least.