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Volkswagen robot vehicle wins DARPA Grand Challenge.(AUTOMOTIVE)
Advanced Materials & Processes, December, 2005
With the technological support of the Volkswagen Electronics Research Laboratory (ERL), Stanford University's robotic Volkswagen Touareg, known as Stanley, has won the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge, run in the Mojave desert near Primm, Nevada. Stanley's time of 6 hours, 53 minutes, 8 seconds (6:53:08) was 11 minutes, 42 seconds faster than the second place finisher (7:04:50) netting the $2 million prize.
In all, 23 autonomous vehicles went head-to-head over 130 miles of tough desert roads, mountain trails, dry lake beds and tunnels, using only onboard sensors and navigation equipment with no human assistance. These 23 vehicles were selected from a field of 195 teams through a series of qualifying races. The Grand Challenge, sponsored by the Defense Advanced...
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