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This Car has no Human Driver, no Remote Control. Just Mac OS X

Dora Touareg“Dora”, is the world’s first fully autonomous vehicle driven by Mac OS X. The entire development and race management efforts at Team Banzai is being done using Apple Mac OS X technology. According to the tech section of their site, “the car follows a series of GPS waypoints that define the course boundary and periodic check points.”
Team Banzai is one of only 40 teams from around the country to advance by invitation to the national semi-finals of the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge. Selected from a field of almost 200 teams that applied and competed through earlier regional elimination rounds, Team Banzai is proud to be participating in this exciting head-to-head competition in an attempt to win $2 million. Read more about it in the press release.


Dora Touareg“Dora”, is the world’s first fully autonomous vehicle driven by Mac OS X. The entire development and race management efforts at Team Banzai is being done using Apple Mac OS X technology. According to the tech section of their site, “the car follows a series of GPS waypoints that define the course boundary and periodic check points.”
Team Banzai is one of only 40 teams from around the country to advance by invitation to the national semi-finals of the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge. Selected from a field of almost 200 teams that applied and competed through earlier regional elimination rounds, Team Banzai is proud to be participating in this exciting head-to-head competition in an attempt to win $2 million. Read more about it in the press release.

By Jason O'Grady

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