Whereas the desert race was “go and go”, the Urban Challenge will be “stop and go”, says William “Red” Whittaker, a renowned roboticist at CMU.

如果说，沙漠赛意味着“走，一直走（go and go）”之时，城市挑战赛则属于“走走停停（stop and go）”，CMU的著名机器人专家威廉·惠特克（William “Red” Whittaker）这样说。

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"This is a wonderful day in the history of robotics, " Carnegie Mellon team leader Red Whittaker said after the race.

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Even pulling into a parking spot, "Boss, " the team's adapted Chevy Tahoe, considers thousands of angles of approach and instantaneously chooses the best, according to team leader, Red Whittaker.

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And Carnegie Mellon's Red Whittaker is already imaging what the next big DARPA-sponsored event could involve--perhaps a 24-hour race of robotic cars through snow and rain, or maybe team racing with coordinated convoys of driverless cars.

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