Day 5: Business as usual. Follow Sagar’s adventures as he hangs around the Netherlands in the days leading up to the Grand Cooperative Driving Challenge.
The plan for today was to continue with testing and fixing the controller issues identified yesterday. Proper testing and verification of the controller...
Day 4: Stopping is for losers. Follow Sagar’s adventures as he hangs around the Netherlands in the days leading up to the Grand Cooperative Driving Challenge.
Dennis Sundman joined the team today with the statement, “You know you have too little to do, if you start using a mouse.” As hardcore geeks...
Day 3: The Swedish domination. Follow Sagar’s adventures as he hangs around the Netherlands in the days leading up to the Grand Cooperative Driving Challenge.
Heretic people work on Sundays too, even though the Hotel Breakfast is not available early in the morning because everyone else is taking it easy. So we...
Day 2: The calm before the storm? Follow Sagar’s adventures as he hangs around the Netherlands in the days leading up to the Grand Cooperative Driving Challenge.
Saturday started off at 7am with a typical hotel breakfast. The twist was that we also had Dutch pancakes this time. For the unintiated, Dutch pancakes...
Follow Sagar’s adventures as he hangs around the Netherlands in the days leading up to the Grand Cooperative Driving Challenge.
The trip to NL started getting eventful even before I boarded the flight. We reached Arlanda a bit later than I had expected, courtesy bus 40 not turning up, but once we had checked in,...
I am just returning home from a concert by my favouritest female singer, Sissel Kyrkjebø. Am completely, hopelessly starstruck.
Mirza Ghalib often returns from the grave to tug at my heartstrings. Always at opportune moments. I’ve often discovered specific ghazals which seem to apply in their entirety to the situation I find myself in. Perhaps this is another illustration of the principal, “The more personal it is, the more...
It is hard to dislike a place where you’ve been laughing every five minutes. And eating good food. And having great conversations with random strangers. And making new friends. Where good natured ribbing, flamboyance, art, tradition and culture blend smoothly into the potpourri of life. In short, it is hard to dislike...
The last few days in Italy were a blur of activity.
To begin with, the summer school activities became more and more exciting. Two teachers from Barcelona delivered a crash course on control and realtime scheduling. They were young, funny and I wished I had them as my first control teachers. The day brought a very...