Stanford's Stanley wins DARPA Grand Challenge

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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Obligatory sillyness

[dapendragon]

I, for one, welcome our new S.U.V. overlords.

Re:"MOVE OVER BUDDY"

[Chosen Reject]

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

Moore's law states the number of transistor's per square inch will double every 18 months. What does this have to do with speed of a vehicle, especially since it doesn't even have anything to do with the speed of a processor? According to this Moore's law can also be interpreted to be a doubling of data storage every 18 months. But that doesn't have anything to do with going faster.