Dora

By Miles Armstrong · September 4, 2005 ·

This Vehicle, named ‘Dora’, is one of many competing in the DARPA Grand Challenge. The Challenge comprises a 175 mile course with both natural and man-made obstacles. The first vehicle to cross the line, within 10 hours, will win $2,000,000 for its team. This particular ATV from Team Banzai is named Dora and is driven remotely (there is no human intervention, once it is set off only time will tell whether this team got it right) by three Mac Mini’s running Tiger. They control the steering, brakes, Off Road Functions and the Radar and GPS. The Entire Object Orentated control program, is written in Objective-C and Cocoa. The three Macs communicate over a wired network (wireless is forbidden) and are called Navigator, Tactician and Driver, after their respective jobs. I think this is a brilliant idea, and that we should all support the first OS X driven car!