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[After Gutenberg] Caution! Student Droidver: IMG R2D2 Goes 4WD R2D2 goes 4WD Originally uploaded by jurvetson. J Curve posts about “Stanford’s autonomous robotic vehicle that will compete in the DARPA Grand Challenge in October... on the right. Volkswagen exposed the drive-by-wire interface to the development team. Let’s hope

 [Bytefarmers.com] Warping it up! » Blog Archive » Stanford and Volkswagen Create ...: The race will be held on October 8, 2005 in the desert Southwest. The team that develops an autonomous ground vehicle that finishes the designated route most quickly within 10 hours will receive $2 million. The route will be no more than 175 miles over desert terrain featuring natural and man-made obstacles. The Stanford Racing Team’s vehicle is a Volkswagen R5 turbo diesel Touareg that was donated by Volkswagen of America.

 [Bytefarmers.com] Warping it up!: The race will be held on October 8, 2005 in the desert Southwest. The team that develops an autonomous ground vehicle that finishes the designated route most quickly within 10 hours will receive $2 million. The route will be no more than 175 miles over desert terrain featuring natural and man-made obstacles. The Stanford Racing Team’s vehicle is a Volkswagen R5 turbo diesel Touareg that was donated by Volkswagen of America.

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 [Hardware.slashdot.org] Slashdot | Stanford and Volkswagen Create Autonomous Vehicle: Even though from life experiences I know that Life Isnt Fair, and the playing field is never level, some of these teams get insane advantages. I wont even go into CMU (ok, I will: they have basically Defense Contractor backing, parts, and consultants, and like 7 million dollars to spend on the project), and here stanford has sponsorship with volkswagen. I was suprised Cal Tech didnt get more major sponsors, but they might have for round 2 of the challenge. No one has near the advantage of CMU though, their main LIDAR cost more than a lot of people's whole car/setup.

 [Hardware.slashdot.org] Slashdot | Stanford and Volkswagen Create Autonomous Vehicle: Even though from life experiences I know that Life Isnt Fair, and the playing field is never level, some of these teams get insane advantages. I wont even go into CMU (ok, I will: they have basically Defense Contractor backing, parts, and consultants, and like 7 million dollars to spend on the project), and here stanford has sponsorship with volkswagen. I was suprised Cal Tech didnt get more major sponsors, but they might have for round 2 of the challenge. No one has near the advantage of CMU though, their main LIDAR cost more than a lot of people's whole car/setup.

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