Posts Tagged ‘whittaker’

Apple forbids navigation apps on iPhone 3G (except its own)

Thursday, June 12th, 2008
The Internets are abuzz with the announcement of an all-new iPhone, and with features like 3G data connections, new applications and GPS navigation, we're excited too. If you've been making plans to produce your own navigation app for iPhone 2.0, however, you may not be all that thrilled. A closer l......

Google Maps Street-View features upgraded visuals for directions

Friday, May 2nd, 2008
Thanks to inventions like GPS Navigation and online directions, it's getting harder to get lost by the day. Google Maps has been a big hit for folks trying to navigate to new destinations, and the free service just got cooler with the integration of Street-View into driving directions. Now when you ......

Carnegie Mellon and GM entering driverless Tahoe in next DARPA

Sunday, July 16th, 2006
Remember William "Red" Whittaker? He is the ex-marine turned college prof that competed in both the 2004 and 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge with a pair of autonomous H1 HUMMERs named H1ghlander and Sandstorm. Unfortunately for Red, neither HUMMER was able to beat Stanley, the autonomous Volkswagen Touar......