After criticizing MIT's bot for overtaking Cornell's car when it got confused by a barrier and causing a minor bumper brushing, it's come to my attention no points were deducted from either team. In fact, no teams were penalized for traffic infractions of any sort, and the final scoring came down to finish times. MIT managed to come in first place of the teams that didn't win spots on the podium, and that's pretty impressive for a squad conspicuously absent from previous races. MIT's bot, with its extensive array of sensors and custom-build hardware running around 100,000 lines of code written just for the event, was the most geek-tastic of the event. Even though they had 16 out of 40 cores running vision processing from their optical cameras, they still had a little trouble navigating the dirt road portion of the course. Unfortunately, apart from MIT's fourth place win, DARPA will not be providing final scores for the rest of the pack. Happy future defense contracting to all!

DARPA Grand Challenge Round-up

• DARPA Grand Challenge: A Battle of Wits
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  DARPA Grand Challenge: Corporate vs. Collegiate
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  DARPA Grand Challenge: Million-Dollar Babies
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  DARPA Grand Challenge: Update from the Course
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  DARPA Grand Challenge: And the Winner Is...
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  DARPA Grand Challenge: Team LUX's Lament

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