Carnegie Mellon Wins Urban Challenge

ThinkingInBinary writes "The results from the Urban Challenge are in! Carnegie Mellon's Tartan Racing team came in first (earning a $2 million prize), followed by Stanford's Stanford Racing team in second (earning $1 mil) and Virginia Tech's Victor Tango in third (earning $500k). Cornell's Team Cornell, University of Pennsylvania and Lehigh University's Ben Franklin Racing Team, and MIT, also finished the race in that order."

Comments

obligatory

[Anonymous Coward]

2nd is the best

Re:But...

[kitsunewarlock]

And will it blend?

MIT?

[Anonymous Coward]

MIT, MIT...

Oh yeah, isn't that kind of like Massachusetts' version of CMU?

Insufficient deaths

[Harmonious Botch]

Many people know that more than 40,000 people die each year in motor vehicle accidents, however when it comes to people I feel this number is insufficient. I feel that way myself sometimes.

Re:Any opensource out of this ?

[Dare nMc]

I doubt that any of these teams will have turned a profit on this competition

Did you miss the red bull,GM, google, caterpillar, VW, Bosch, paint job?

Re:Congrats..

[RuBLed]

Ahhhh.. *lightbulb*

Carnegie Mellon's algorithm

//crossing an intersection
if(OtherCars.SignallingToCross())
{
Me.Stop();
Me.WaitForClear();
}

OshKosh Truck's modified algorithm (copied)

//crossing an intersection
if(OtherCars.SignallingToCross())
{
//Me.Stop();
//Me.WaitForClear();
Me.BuzzHorn(Max_Vol);
}

This spells doom for ...

[Organic Brain Damage]

... suicide car bombers.

Re:Any opensource out of this ?

[timmarhy]

if it was open source, the car would first ask you to load kld_brake_for_kids. After struggling with that for a few days you'd get on the road only to find you crash into a tree because the cars hardware isn't compatible, and some guy on /. would tell you it's ok because you have the source and can write your own do not crash into tree's module.