DARPA's Grand Challenge Race (robots in the Ca.-Nev. desert)

[underpants]

Mitch Torrie, of Team CIMAR, from Gainesville Florida, drives his team's vehicle back to their pit at the California speedway in Fontana, California March 8, 2004. The United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is holding a Grand Challenge Race of driver less vehicles, supercomputers on wheels, where some 20 vehicles will race across the desert March 13 for a first place prize of one million dollars. Robotic technology combined with supercomputers, satellite navigation, digital sensors are being combined to try and replace a human. The race, somewhere between Barstow, California and Las Vegas will call on the vehicles to travel some 250 miles. REUTERS/Mike Blake

[Trillo]

1. Legacy of Bush 1?

Wasn't the Barstow to Vegas off-road motorcycle "race" outlawed by the BLM in 1990, citing 'environmental damage' as the reason?

[Robb]

2. "There has been too much violence...."

"...too much pain. Leave the gas. Leave the gas and walk away. Just walk away and there will be an end to the horror!"