Stanford Wins Again!
November 4th, 2007 by SBLet’s hear it for the Suicidebots homies Stanford University, who have won yet another DARPA Grand Challenge, this time over a citylike environment:
In all, 11 robotic vehicles set out on the race course Saturday morning, and while five scrubbed out for various reasons, the fact that six driverless vehicles drove a delivery route seems like a win for innovation. No car finished in the first race in 2004.
Big ups to Sebastian Thrun and the team that made Junior road-ready
November 4th, 2007 at 12:02 pm
Umm, judging from the darpa site, CMU won the race… am I missing something?
http://www.darpa.mil/grandchallenge/
November 4th, 2007 at 1:40 pm
Rob, you are not missing anything. CMU won the $2 million, having finished the race a full 20 minutes faster than Stanford. This post is incorrect.
November 4th, 2007 at 2:25 pm
Neat, I’m wrong. I got my info from SFgate.com, which is also, apparently, wrong. Can one of your fine fellows post a link here with the official results?
Cheers!
November 6th, 2007 at 6:12 am
That first link leads to the true winners page. The reason you might have been confused is that Stanford’s car ended up crossing the finish line first - however, Carnegie-Mellon ended up starting later, and since the race was comprised of three separate missions that didn’t happen one right after the other, the times the cars crossed the finish lines weren’t the only things that determined who was the winner. Besides, Stanford only won the last one because some of CMU’s professors transferred over there before the race. So there.