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DARPA Winner's Victory Lap To End At Smithsonian

Travis Hudson — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:00:00 EDT

The Volkswagen Touareg that was crowned as the first DARPA Grand Challenge winner in 2005 (the first challenge was in 2004, but no winners were crowned) is making a grand tour that will eventually lead the fully autonomous vehicle to the top dog of museums, the Smithsonian. The Touareg was nicknamed "Stanley" since it's so much easier to pronounce.

Stanley was developed by Stanford University's School of Engineering with input from Volkswagen, MDV-Mohn Davidow Ventures and Intel. It's completely autonomous, meaning it requires no driver, making its completion of the 132-mile Mojave Desert course in a little less than seven hours at an average speed of 19.1 mph all the more impressive. Technology developed for Stanley has helped advance technologies being used by vehicles today, including adaptive cruise control and electronic stabilization.
[Gizmag]

Next DARPA Grand Challenge to Be Held on City Streets, First 11 Teams Picked

Mike Spinelli — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 15:57:01 EDT

As we mentioned earlier this year, the next DARPA Grand Challenge will remove all those spanky autonomous vehicles from the desert and drop them onto city streets, albiet mocked-up ones. Entrants, like VW's and Stanford University's Stanley the Touareg (pictured), must follow all traffic laws to find their way around urban obstacles like buildings, traffic signs, other cars, and guys carrying huge, silver radios on their shoulders [Keep the jokes in this decade, Mr. Kotter — ed.]. The simulated course will be 60 miles long , part of which will involve pulling into a parking lot, buying beer and avoiding a simulated juvie officer [Better — ed.] – Mike Spinelli

Robot cars will race in real traffic [New Scientist]

PBS's "Nova" to Feature DARPA Grand Challenge Tonight

Mike Spinelli — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 10:10:19 EST

Prop-heads set your Tivos on stun. PBS's "Nova" tonight will feature a look at last October's DARPA Grand Challenge autonomous vehicle race, on a episode it calls "The Great Robot Race." The program will follow contestants in the lead-up to the race followed by the competition, in which a Volkswagen Touareg named Stanley, built by the team of Stanford University and Volkswagen Electronics Research Laboratory (ERL) won by completing the 132-mile desert course in six hours and 35 minutes. Geek rating: A[sum(X[j]*Y[j], j=1,10)]+.

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Four Entrants Finish DARPA Grand Challenge [internal]