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#1
09-14-2005, 09:06 PM
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Palm Desert. CA
Posts: 338
#2
09-14-2005, 09:06 PM
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Palm Desert. CA
Posts: 338
#3
09-14-2005, 09:36 PM
Hummer Expert
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Call-ee-FOR-nya
Posts: 853
Very clever of the University students to use an H2 SUT for the competition. I'm guessing that things which would knock a normal vehicle off course don't affect the Hummer, and therefore, it provides a more stable and predictable platform for the computers to work off of.
Like always say, crush them if they can't take a joke.
George SSSS
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#4
09-14-2005, 09:50 PM
Hummer Professional
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 330
It's actually an H1.
"Sandstorm is Red Team's veteran racer.
Sandstorm began life as a 1986 model 998 HMMWV (High Mobility Multi-purpose Wheeled Vehicle). Automotive upgrades include a fresh engine and suspension. Shock isolation softens the ride for computers and sensors.
Drive-by-wire modifications control the acceleration, braking and shifting of the vehicle. Communication between these modules is accomplished through TTP. Positive emergency braking is pneumatically released with a home-built design. Steering actuation incorporates actuators from HD Systems.
The most visible configuration elements are sensors aboard an actuated gimbal platform positioned atop the shock-isolated enclosure. Sandstorm carries vision, radar, laser and GPS sensors which are externally mounted. The three-layer mounting provides the advantages of active stabilization that rides atop passive mechanical isolation that rides above the vehicle suspension."
#5
09-14-2005, 11:12 PM
Hummer Authority
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Los Angeles, Calif
Posts: 1,283
We've all seen the movie Terminator 2: when this Hummer's integral artificial intelligence network becomes conscience.....we're all FU(KED!!!!
Well, at least until it breaks a half-shaft, idler arm, pitman arm, u-joint, losses a seal on the CTIS, has the heater coil rot out, or the vibration and noise coming from a broken motor-mount kills the CPU.
In other words, as soon as it leaves the pavement 
At least they didn't paint it pewter 
#6
09-15-2005, 01:39 AM
Hummer Messiah
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Virginia Beach
Posts: 37,474
Saw it on TV. One of those TLC or Discovery types. Pretty cool.
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