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 The Golem Group's vehicle decided it had had enough of being a nice little robot about and hour ago here at the DARPA Urban Challenge, stepped on the gas, and tried to escape.
It had been running laps in the left-turn-and-merge-into-traffic course without too much difficulty, when after seven or eight laps it got hung up in a turn. DARPA officials put it in pause mode and team members went out to tweak its code, drive it back to the course's starting point, then headed back off the course. Officials unpaused the car, and then, as team member Roy Pollock explained afterwards, the car nudged the gas and turned the wheel to straighten itself out, but because of a feedback error, it didn't get the message that it was in fact accelerating. So it fed more gas, and more and more, until it careened off the roadway and jumped a curb, blowing out a front tire. Looks like an easy repair. Tgdaily.com is here capturing video, and they got this one on tape, along with video of Axion Racing's vehicle tapping a DARPA car on the same track earlier today. Recommend this article...
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