The Robot Hummer Flips!!
Less than three days ago I told you about a robot-controlled Hummer driving by itself.
Well, looks like it didn’t last, because I ran across this story — the robot-controlled Hummer has met its end temporarily — and flipped! (see the top left picture)
According to this article in the post-gazette:
In scene that smacked of deja vu for Carnegie Mellon University’s Red Team, a driverless Hummer rolled over near Carson City, Nev., late Monday afternoon as it practiced for the upcoming $2 million Grand Challenge race.“It hit a berm, dug in on the driver’s corner, then spun and rolled,” team leader William “Red” Whittaker reported in an e-mail sent to team members at 1 a.m. yesterday.
The vehicle, a heavily modified H1 Hummer dubbed H1ghlander, landed on its roof, shattering a fiberglass dome that houses its main navigation sensors.
You can read the rest of the article here.
