It's not every day you get to impress the jaded technology nerds in downtown San Jose ("the Capital of Silicon Valley"). It's doubly hard when ESC – oops, the DesignWest conference – is in town and 90% of the populace is showing off their latest seamless multicore hybrid open-source whatever. And it's rarer still to be blowing them all away on public roads.
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