Stanford's Stanley wins DARPA Grand Challenge

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday October 10, 2005 @01:10AM 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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Why so long to post? by brindafella · 2005-10-10 02:23 · Score: 0, Offtopic

The real question for me is, "Why did it take at least 7 hours after I saw this online for the information to appear on /.?" I did not even bother to go near /. to post it, because I figured that I'd been comprehensively beaten to the story. And, I know that the story had been online several hours by the time I saw it. So, why the big delay, /.?

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