Darpa Grand Challenge Today

[everman]

Who do you think will win, if anyone?

Main site with webcast tomarrow.

The teams

My vote is for Stanford.

Update:

Red Team Too and Stanford are in the lead with 97 miles behind them. check out the main page for live updates.

Update 2:

Stanford is in the lead, CMU follows. Looks like Stanford should win if all goes well...

Update 3: Stanford wins!

Update 4: Terramax is the 5th and final vehicle to finish.

 

[Rogue]

Remember that part in Waterboy when Rob Schneider yells out, "We suck again!" I think that's going to be the end result this year.

 

[toekramp]

go Va Tech

 

[everman]

Considering that some team's cars can easily navigate last year's course, I'm rather confident someone will win. But you never know...really cool anyways.

 

[Rogue]

After reading the link, I gotta put my money on Carnegie Mellon. The Army has a cooperative arrangement with them, so there's likely some sharing on tech going on there, plus they came went the furthest last year.

 

[MichaelD]

This is the unmanned SUV thing, right? Coolest thing ever! I've been watching this since it's inception (I don't root for anyone...I just want the most capable, toughest vehicle to win )
I think this is really great; it combines the allure for the gearheads as well as the geeks; two formerlly, pretty much, incompatible teams.

These days though, cars are giant computers attached to IC engines, though.

 

[miniMUNCH]

CMU should represent tmorrow...

 

[everman]

Bump for the race!

 

[blustori]

Darnit my school isn't there this year.

 

[vshah]

sheeit this is close...we'd better catch up in the last leg.

 

[Fenixgoon]

what happened to ripsaw (anyone see the promo video for that)? that thing definitely would have won if it had entered

 

[everman]

Stanford seems to be in the lead, #3 link

 

[FeuerFrei]

Originally posted by: everman
Stanford seems to be in the lead, #3 link

Only 7 more miles

 

[everman]

Originally posted by: FeuerFrei

Originally posted by: everman
Stanford seems to be in the lead, #3 link

Only 7 more miles

Final few miles is supposed to be a real "bot killer", so we'll see..

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: everman
Red Team Too and Stanford are in the lead with 97 miles behind them. check out the main page for live updates.

Nice. Didn't they only make it like 6 miles last year?

 

[FeuerFrei]

Originally posted by: everman

Originally posted by: FeuerFrei

Originally posted by: everman
Stanford seems to be in the lead, #3 link

Only 7 more miles

Final few miles is supposed to be a real "bot killer", so we'll see..

Hmm, if you say so.
First to cross the finish line isn't necessarily the winner. Winner is based on time elapsed to complete the course. Staggered start I believe.

 

[CrackRabbit]

Originally posted by: everman

Originally posted by: FeuerFrei

Originally posted by: everman
Stanford seems to be in the lead, #3 link

Only 7 more miles

Final few miles is supposed to be a real "bot killer", so we'll see..

It made it though "Beer Bottle Pass" without falling off a cliff, its smooth sailing from there to the finish line.

 

[sniperruff]

i think of the original MGS on PSX... DARPA chief...

 

[everman]

Originally posted by: CrackRabbit

Originally posted by: everman

Originally posted by: FeuerFrei

Originally posted by: everman
Stanford seems to be in the lead, #3 link

Only 7 more miles

Final few miles is supposed to be a real "bot killer", so we'll see..

It made it though "Beer Bottle Pass" without falling off a cliff, its smooth sailing from there to the finish line.

Yep they're through, about 5 miles left for them. Time to weaponize this thing

 

[Minjin]

Looks like the finish is going to be:

1. Stanford
2. Red Team
3. Red Team Too

They are trouncing all the other competitors.

Mark

 

[CrackRabbit]

Looks like Stanley has crossed the finish line.
7 Hours 36 Minutes
Congrats to the Stanford team!

 

[FeuerFrei]

Stanford's running a Volkswage Touareg R5. They've crossed the finish line!

 

[ViRGE]

Haha! Someone ran the whole course, this is great.

 

[Minjin]

It looks like 6 vehicles have a chance to finish...out of 23. I would love to be a part of something like this. :thumbsup:

Mark

 

[everman]

This is one of the more interesting vehicles, it's still going too.