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A Guide to 4-Wheel Drive Trails can be useful for finding a place to enhance your off-roading skills and to test-drive your DARPA Grand Challenge vehicle. Includes easy, moderate, and difficult trails. Includes about 4-10+ GPS waypoints per trail. Select from Southern California, Moab, Arizona, and two Colorado volumes.

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Whether a newcomer to off-roading or experienced, there are books to enhance your 4-wheeling skills. Of course, the goal of the DARPA Grand Challenge is to create a vehicle that can drive on its own, but to create that vehicle you'll need to know what it takes. Besides, it's a blast!

Books on GPS from "For Dummies" to "A text for an introductory course in the technology at the senior or first-level graduate level that practicing engineers and scientists could also use for self-study," plus references on Kalman digital filters and the dynamics of INS.

A handheld GPS device can be connected to your PC, or use a Compact Flash or USB "mouse" GPS, one that has no display of its own.

When you head out off-roading with your new GPS, be sure to take along a little light reading...