Spirit with the crew and the very same - after pilotless ascending to the Pa1ks- peak, gladdens its creators (photograph Axion Racing).

Automobile- robots made the sequential historic action: the pilotless extra-road builder, altered from Jeep Grand Cherokee, independently overcame the famous sport route of lift to the pilotless extra-road builder, altered from Jeep Grand Cherokee, independently overcame the famous Famous to entire peace automobile competition in lift to the hill - Pikes Peak International Hillclimb - is conducted yearly since 1916. Pa1ks- peak mountain in Colorado has the height of 4,3 kilometers, and 20- kilometer route on its slopes rises from the launching point to the finish to 1,44 kilometers, making in this case 156 sharp turns. The American command Axion Racing prepared automobile- robot Spirit - augmented by stereos-camera, satellite navigation, mass of different sensors (radar, lasers) and by artificial intellect, just as by actuators for control of steering wheel and by all systems jeep Grand Cherokee. Directly during the international race (on 1 July) this machine rose to the apex Pa1ks- peak under human control. But next day after the sport contest (on 2 July), when route was more- less free, automobile- robot completed independent ascending to the apex, having successfully overcome all turnings of route. Thus, machine- robot in the history it for the first time passed the route of lift to the hill, using exceptionally its own "feelings" and independently "making decisions". Time Spirit was 47 minutes and 10,3 seconds, which is approximately five times slower than the record of race (usual, with the people after the control). True, leader Axion Bill Of keeli (Bill Kehaly) said that "we could dostich' apex and it is more rapid, but Spirit was forced to impede in order not to interfere with by slower, locate on the route, to the machines, controlled by people". The most remarkable - Axion Racing - one of ten commands of engineers and programmers, who on 23 September of present year will derive their creations on the first yearly race of automobile- robots to the Pa1ks- peak (Pikes Peak Robot Hill Climb). This competition will supplement known in the recent years DARPA Grand Challenge (report about the latter of them - here), and also new race of machine- robots under the urban conditions, into which strictly the desert call Grand Challenge was transformed. Also read about how American engineers in earnest they was going to let out automobile- robot into the real city and to the highway - directly into the usual traffic.