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Stanford's Stanley wins DARPA Grand Challenge

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the congrats-to-all-for-competing dept.

tonyquan writes "DARPA has just announced that Stanford's "Stanley" autonomous ground vehicle has won the Grand Challenge, a $2 million contest for driverless vehicles over a 132 mile course in California's Mohave Desert. Stanley's winning time over the course was 6 hours, 53 minutes and 58 seconds, for an average speed of 19.1 mph. Second was Carnegie Mellon's Sandstorm (7:04:50), third went to another CMU vehicle "H1ghlander" (7:14:00) and fourth to the Gray Team's KAT-5 (7:30:16) More info from DARPA."

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  1. "MOVE OVER BUDDY" by MosesJones · · Score: 5, Funny

    Less than 20mph in an SUV through the desert. These Robot control cars are worse than my Grandmother on an interstate.

    Quite clearly these Robot controlled cars are part of a sophisticated plot to increase the amount of road rage in the US to enable the Robots to take over the country... and then the world.

    It is not too late to stop them, we must insist that the next competition involves only Ford Broncos and takes place on the Freeways of Los Angeles during rush hour.

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    1. Re:"MOVE OVER BUDDY" by earthforce_1 · · Score: 4, Funny

      Yeah but according to Moore's law, the robot cars should be able to break Mach 1 sometime around 2010.

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  2. The downside to this by Elrac · · Score: 5, Funny

    While I'm happy that these hard-working academics were successful, I can't help but note the downside to this development.

    Forget military applications. What I foresee is that, for computer scientists who've lost their jobs to outsourcing, this will deprive them of one more alternative, namely a career as a taxi/truck/bus/etc driver.

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  3. Stanford + Volkswagen by SamuraiMike · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Drivers unnecessary"

  4. Quote from the winner by VeganBob · · Score: 5, Funny

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  5. Re:Good news by cerberusss · · Score: 4, Funny
    Maybe in 20 years we can have auto driving cars

    I can already imagine the following scene:
    You: *steps in car* "Drive me to uncle George?"
    Car: "Why do you want me to drive to uncle George"
    You: "Because it's his birthday, dammit. Now start driving!"
    Car: "You seem to be a bit angry. Where does this anger come from?"
    You: "Start DRIVING you gas-guzzling piece of shit!"
    Car: *accelerates to 100mph* *dumps core*

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