Re: Great opportunity for Ada application

["Marin David Condic" <mcondic.auntie.spam@acm.org>]

Small companies don't generally have the resources to dedicate to something
like this. It would take some non-trivial dedication of personnel and
capital equipment just in order to play the game and those folks aren't
going to be generating revenue. A company like GM could possibly throw a few
million at some engineers and let them play games with the hope of possibly
developing some useful new technology & getting a little good press, but
"Bob's Control Computers" would have a hard time going that route. Are there
any larger-scale automotive companies using Ada?

MDC
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Jerry Petrey @raytheon.com> <"jdpetrey<NOSPAM> wrote in message
news:3E4A7FDB.3C96D63A@raytheon.com...
> DARPA is sponsoring a competition with a one million dollar prize for an
> autonomous vehicle to transverse a course between L.A. and Las Vegas in
2004.
> This would be a great opportunity for an Ada controlled entry.
> See http://www.darpa.mil/grandchallenge/ for details.
> Perhaps there is some small company around that would like to undertake
this
> challenge and make a name for themselves and show what Ada can do.
>