The project, aimed at bringing AI to commercial drone flyers, is "challenging teams to develop artificial intelligence (AI) technology that will enable an autonomous drone to race a pilot-operated drone – and win".
In San Diego, where street racing has killed at least 14 people in three years, San Diego State University started a pilot program, "Race legal," which sponsors amateur drag racing at Qualcomm Stadium.
In this way, players can quickly swap between activities, temporarily abandoning missions to, say, race jetskis or apply for a pilot's license.
At present the only planned upgrades in the south of Scotland are at Innerleithen, a winner in BT's Race to Infinity campaign, and a pilot project in Annan.
Later, she became a pilot and motor racing driver, but increasingly she ran into medical and social difficulties in being accepted as a man – she used to wear a tight elastic bandage round her chest to hold in her breasts.
Hahnemann doubts flying will ever give him the same adrenaline rush he experiences when playing football in front of huge crowds – "I think I'd have to jump out of a plane with a parachute to beat that" – although he admits that being a pilot gets the pulse racing for other reasons.
His bio reads like a Most Interesting Man in the World skit: He was a pilot by age 12, raced cars, played football for UCLA, fought at Iwo Jima, won a Purple Heart in the Navy, went from Harvard Business School into cosmetics and fashion, married an Italian princess, and later led attempts to excavate downed World War II planes from Greenland ice.
His bio reads like a Most Interesting Man in the World skit: He was a pilot by age 12, raced cars, played football for UCLA, fought at Iwo Jima, won a Purple Heart in the Navy, went from Harvard Business School into cosmetics and fashion, married an Italian princess and later led attempts to excavate downed World War II planes from Greenland ice.
A Democratic congressman from Arizona, Ron Barber, has led a fight to keep a big Warthog base open in his district: his Republican opponent in what is shaping up to be one of the closest 2014 races, Martha McSally, was an A-10 pilot.
He was a pilot, sailor, soccer and auto racing fan, world traveler, and an avid cyclist.
Doris Abbate, 69, earned a pilot's license and began racing in her early 20's.
