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you're watching a Nova Video podcast on
the DARPA Grand
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Challenge my name is Anthony leowski
I was a grad student at uh Berkeley
instead of continuing on to finish my
PhD I decided it was much better to do
the Grand
Challenge and I'm the blue team's uh
team
leader being part of the Grand Challenge
is the dreams of you know man since they
realized the wheel existed I mean can
you make uh something drive on their own
so the fact that it's actually happening
now is something that you can't pass up
you want to start here I I do think the
people on our team are most dedicated of
anybody else um none of them are being
paid um we're all doing this as
volunteers but yet we're putting 12 14
16 hour days here we go
you may be wondering how we keep the
bike stable by using steering only and
that's the way humans do it it's very
simple basically if the vehicle starts
to fall to the left um you steer left
and by steering left you're getting
cental
acceleration and that pulls you back up
so if you're doing this fast enough you
can
now constantly uh hold any angle you
want
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Thrill is uh seeing something that
everybody who you know told you could
not be
done work because you put in hours to
make it
happen uh our schedule you know
typically starts out 10: or 11:00 a.m.
every day and then we have about four or
five hours where we talk about um what
needs to be done thought we talked about
this we were going to get this like two
weeks ago like Monday sure this is uh
Anthony leowski calling back iy spoke
with him yesterday from 3:00 p.m. to
5:00 p.m. I I'm on the phone I'm cold
calling I'm uh trying to get uh sponsors
I'm trying to get people excited about
the
project roughly around 600 p.m. we take
the bike out and we go testing
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yeah I
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mean this
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there yeah well the thing is it went too
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far it takes probably 14 hours a day
plus a couple hours for showering and
food and so
forth I I think it's totally worth it
though
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