Re: The prize-winner car, dubbed Stanley, is a diesel-powered Volkswagen Touareg. Equipped with six Pentium M computers, a GPS system, and a drive-by-wire control set, the car was able to drive 200 km through the Mojave Desert between California and Nevada by itself in nearly seven hours.
...improve their vehicles' artificial intelligence and sensing systems.
The vehicles were equipped with the latest sensors, lasers, cameras and radar that feed data to onboard computers, which helped them distinguish...
Frankly, I don't believe that the US military is willing to waste such sophisticated, whizz-bang, Touareg SUVs equipped with top-notch electronics, computer hard-/software, totalling several millions of dollars, just for the sake of blowing up a hundred Iraqi insurgents! You overlook HUMINT. Keep in mind that, contrary to what the US media-military complex tells us, the US occupation forces in Iraq are RUNNING the place. More than two years after the fall of Baghdad, US troops --helped by Israeli experts-- must have set up a comprehensive network of informers, auxiliaries, and provocateurs to keep them abreast of what's going on in the country.... Of course, it's not a perfect yoke --otherwise we would no longer hear of US casualties. But it's certainly sufficient to carry out false-flag bombings. Most of those Iraqi "harkis" in the pay of the US military are expendable manpower and it doesn't take a counterintelligence genius to figure out a way to write them off.... What drives them, even more than a personal grudge against the present or past (Iraqi) regime, is money. So, on pay day, the US handler has only to ask his Iraqi agent to drive a particular truck, along a set route, up to a particular meeting place to pick up the money. Then it's just a matter of remotely blowing up the truck bomb as it rides past the target....
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