I've mentioned the DARPA Grand Challenge and DARPA Urban Challenge competition a few times.
DARPA is short for Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. They're the mad science wing of the Department of Defense. They were founded in response to the launch of Sputnik.
About 1 out of every 10 projects yield something useful. This includes the creation of the internet. Yes, it started as a network between a bunch of universities on the west coast but it was planned and paid for by what was known at the time as ARPA and the original network was called the ARPANET. The extra "D" was added during the Clinton Administration.
My original point was to show you the DARPA Grand Challenge episode of "NOVA". "NOVA" also has an episode for the more recent Urban Challenge, but I still don't know when it'll air.
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