“Dora” is the world’s first fully-autonomous (no human driver and no remote control) vehicle driven by Apple Computer’s Mac OS X. The entire development and race management efforts at Team Banzai is being done using Apple Mac OS X technology. As the Team Banzai website reads, “all Macs… all the time.”
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.
More info, “driven by Mac OS X” web badge, and pictures here.
[Update: 4:25pm EDT: After extensive review, the headline “World’s first fully-autonomous (no human driver, no remote control) vehicle driven by Apple Mac OS X” will remain unchanged due to the fact that the article is about the “world’s first fully-autonomous (no human driver, no remote control) vehicle driven by Apple Mac OS X.” Thank you.]
[Update: 4:33pm EDT: After even more extensive review, the headline “World’s first fully-autonomous (no human driver, no remote control) vehicle driven by Apple Mac OS X” has been changed to “Meet Dora: world’s 1st fully-autonomous Apple Mac OS X vehicle (no human driver, no remote control)” for mysterious reasons which we will probably never fully explain. Thank you.]
[Update: 4:50pm EDT: After massively extensive review, the headline “World’s first fully-autonomous (no human driver, no remote control) vehicle driven by Apple Mac OS X” that was changed to “Meet Dora: world’s 1st fully-autonomous Apple Mac OS X vehicle (no human driver, no remote control)” has now been changed to “Vehicle drives itself (no human driver and no remote control) thanks to Apple’s Mac OS X” for reasons even we don’t fully understand. Thank you.]