When you’re driving down the road, armadillos don’t see you coming and they’re not very fast. When they realize you’re right over them, you’ve straddled them with your wheels, they don’t freeze, they leap. That doesn’t usually end well for the armadillo.
Henry, sleeping in the hallway, doesn’t hear us coming. At the exact moment we’re stepping over him, it’s absolutely certain that he’s going to suddenly realize we’re there and leap, knocking himself out on the oil pan.
https://www.indyautonomouschallenge.com/
“Program a legitimate Indy Car to out-race and out-maneuver fellow innovators in the world’s first head-to-head, high-speed autonomous race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.”
A one million dollar prize to the first team to cross the finish line in 25 minutes or less in a head-to-head, 20-lap race of automated racecars around the Indianapolis Motor Speedway oval. Totally automated driverless cars all together at once, at speeds up to 200 mph, racing each other for a million dollars. What could possibly go wrong?
Watch for it October 23rd.
Test outing. Shakedown cruise after a quiet summer. Drove to San Antonio. Spent the night in a campground in the bus. Drove home. All systems go, for a three-month trip that begins in two weeks!
We’ll do a big loop. The plan is to get to the Pacific Northwest in August while it’s still summer, Colorado in September before it’s winter, and Phoenix in October after the triple digits. The perfect plan, right?
Shield backed katydid on the back of our grill cover.
First time ever I identified a katydid by myself!
