Pentagon's 'Crusher' Robot Vehicle Nearly Ready to Go

[Prrkitty]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,332755,00.html

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Quote: It's rough, tough, unmanned and nearly unstoppable.

The Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA (which brought you a little thing called the Internet), has nearly finished work on the Crusher, a six-wheeled robot that rolls through ditches, walls, streams, other vehicles and almost anything else that gets in its way.

"This vehicle can go into places where, if you were following in a Humvee, you'd come out with spinal injuries," Stephen Welby, director of DARPA's Tactical Technology Office, told the military-oriented Stars and Stripes newspaper. "Usually vehicles are set up to protect humans. Here, we didn't have to worry about that."
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OH Man! I SO SO want one :) This could be the start of vehicles not needing to be driven by someone (so to speak). Enter your start and finish address... get in ... and enjoy the ride.

:) Hopefully this can help save our troops in dangerous places to be in.

EDIT:
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Quote 2: Surprisingly, the Crusher's engine is ripped from a diesel Volkswagen Jetta. Its testers "drive" it with controllers for racing video games. A hacked Apple iPhone gives remote updates of the Crusher's internal diagnostics. And a standard Xbox 360 controller raises the mast antenna, rotates the cameras and, given the situation, fires the weapons.

Soldiers "could finally put those 'Halo' skills to good use," joked Welby.

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NOW it can be proven that video gaming skills CAN be beneficial!! :)

[Beldaran]

Next phase:

http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/3691/t12001auo2.jpg

[Modus Ponens]

Dude! It's like the vehicle in Moon Patrol (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_Patrol). Rad.

[Beldaran]

Is there no end to your arcane knowledge of games??? ;)

[Modus Ponens]

@ Beldaran: No.

@ Prrkitty: That part you mention in your edit makes my heart sing.

[Beldaran]

That settles it... someday I'm buying a car and hacking it so that I can sit in the driver's seat and drive it with an NES pad.

[deathbyhokie]

The Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA (which brought you a little thing called the Internet),

It's a hoax. Everyone knows Al Gore gave us the internet, not a bunch of scientists.

[Prrkitty]

It's a hoax. Everyone knows Al Gore gave us the internet, not a bunch of scientists.

Hmm... so does that mean that only Al Gore can drive, build and manipulate these awesome mechanical beasts? ;)