DARPA sets new ground rules for next year's Grand Challenge

Hoping to make next year's Grand Challenge robotic road race a little more grand and little less of a, um, total freaking fiasco, DARPA, the government agency sponsoring the event, has set up some new ground rules. No one even came close to bagging the million bucks that was offered as a prize this year (they're doubling it to $2 million next year),
and so rather than face a repeat of this year's race, which mainly consisted of robotic vehicles blowing up, crashing into walls, or simply failing to get more than a few hundred feet past the starting line, they're going to require teams to submit some video demonstrating their robot's ability to do something other than self-destruct.

[Via Slashdot.org]