Darpa Grand Challenge 2007 - November 3rd

[y00tz]

http://www.darpa.mil/grandchallenge/

For those of you who love this as well, it starts tomorrow, also, a live webcast will be here: http://www.grandchallenge.org/, for those wanting to watch it.

[y00tz]

Did anyone else watch it?  It was really interesting, it's a shame only the 6 have finished, but I can't wait until tomorrow at 10 for the results..

[Eiii]

Aah, I managed to miss it. Hope they post a video at some point, I really want to see what happened. :|

[KnacK]

Umm could you excuse me for a second while I reboot my car?

I think what was really cool was the truck from Oshkosh.

I don';t know if I'd like to have that big beast running autonomously and have something go bad.......

[y00tz]

Results (http://www.darpa.mil/grandchallenge/):

1st Place - Tartan Racing, Pittsburgh, PA
2nd Place - Stanford Racing Team, Stanford, CA [previous winners, whom I rooted for.  "Stanley"]
3rd Place - Victor Tango, Blacksburg, VA

For those who missed it, here is the highlights video link [direct to vid]: http://www.darpa.mil/grandchallenge/video/DARPA_NQE_preview_high.wmv

*KnacK edition: http://www.darpa.mil/grandchallenge/video/DARPA_NQE_preview_low.wmv (only 3 megs)

[Eiii]

That highlights video was terrible. I'll keep my eye out for something with substance.

[y00tz]

That highlights video was terrible. I'll keep my eye out for something with substance.

Haha I agree, I'll start watching stuff before I link it.

[KnacK]

The funny factoid of the whole event was that DARPA spent 22 million to get the course ready for the challenge.