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Carnegie Mellon Wins Urban Challenge

Posted by Zonk on from the go-nerd-racers-gooo dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Any opensource out of this ? by Ironsides · · Score: 4, Informative

    All three teams took development money from DARPA. As such, DARPA gets a copy of all software and development notes that the teams produced.

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  2. Re:The importance of this race cannot be overstate by fain0v · · Score: 3, Informative

    Driving is a privilage, not a right.

  3. Re:Any opensource out of this ? by p0tat03 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Did you miss all the expensive equipment mounted on the car? Have you ever entered an engineering competition? Almost all teams take commercial sponsors, annd rarely do teams make a profit - after all, you only solicit as many sponsors as it takes to get the project built.

  4. Re:The importance of this race cannot be overstate by timeOday · · Score: 3, Informative

    What gives you the right to decide who can and can't have a car?
    I don't know who you're responding to, since nobody suggested forcibly taking away cars. But I do find it very interesting how people respond to deaths from various sources. 40K per year is a pretty staggering number. Terrorism, for instance, is insignificant in comparison. Even the number of Americans killed in World War II is only 1 decade of auto deaths!