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DARPA Grand Challenge A Real Race At Last?

Posted by Zonk on from the flat-out dept.

museumpeace writes "News.com has posted its second story in a week on a hopeful Grand Challenge contender. Stanford's Stanley, a VW Touareg run by 100,000 lines of code can hit 40 mph and has now traversed all but 3 miles of last year's desert course without problems. A few days earlier, Carnegie Mellon University's Team Red announced that its Sandstorm, a modified Hummer, had run 200 miles without any problems though on a closed track. DARPA cut the field to 40 in June and will cut it to 20 before the race in October."

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  1. Princeton by Adrilla · · Score: 4, Informative

    A guy from princeton made some posts claiming that his team had run the entire course and then some last night. They can be found in this thread ps: they haven't made the final roster yet.

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  2. The worlds most boring race by pudding7 · · Score: 3, Informative

    I was out at California Speedway last year when they were practicing/qualifying or whatever.

    Boring as hell. Interesting, but very tedious.

    Machine moves 10 feet, stops.
    Moves 5 feet, stops.
    Moves 40 feet, stops.
    Turns 10 degrees.
    Turns 15 degrees.
    Moves 10 feet, stops.

    Hopefully they've picked up the pace a bit. Otherwise they'll never go 200 miles through the open desert in the alloted time.