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University of Florida News - UF robotic car may compete for big prize in DARPA grand challenge

  • . — A team that created a fully robotic car leaves Sunday for California, where it will vie for a spot to compete in a race with similar cars for a $2 million prize.
  • . The challenge requires autonomous cars to drive themselves up to 175 miles over torturous desert terrain featuring natural and man-made obstacles such as ditches, cliffs, boulders, open water, underpasses and other vehicles.
  • . “It’s been a fantastic experience, and the team is thrilled to have gotten this far.” Although the team competed in the inaugural DARPA Grand Challenge in March 2004, no one came close to winning the event, which required the cars to complete a 142-mile course from near Los Angeles to near Las Vegas across the Mojave Desert.



    The New DARPA Robot Car Challenge? City Driving
  • | > > The New DARPA Robot Car Challenge? City Driving 05.02.06 Total posts: 1 By ExtremeTech Staff The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) said late Monday that it plans to hold its third Grand Challenge for autonomous robot cars in about eighteen months.
  • . The cars won't be ferrying kids to school, however; they will be performing "simulated military supply missions, " DARPA said.



    Palo Alto Online
  • . Thrun said he has long been interested in various aspects of robotics and artificial intelligence, but became interested in robotic cars when the first DARPA Grand Challenge was run in 2004 and none of the vehicles completed more than 5 percent of the course.
  • . Thrun also shares a longer-term vision -- say five or 10 years -- of robotic cars driving commuters to work, allowing their non-driver occupants to reclaim some of their commute time for productive activities or just relaxation.



    Robot car project plans Californian expedition - 4Car News from Channel 4
  • . Project representative Professor Sebastian Thrun told the Palo Alto Weekly that he believed that, in five to ten years time, robot cars could drive their owners to work along a pre-set route, enabling drivers to relax or use their commuting time for more constructive activities.
  • . It's going to be a multi-billion industry.' Thrun went on to say that robotised cars could also help road safety.

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    Robot Car Drives Into The Future - CBS News
  • . 27, 2005 Fast Fact Within about 25 years scientist Sebastian Thrun figures most cars will drive themselves.
  • . Some time in the 25 years or so, Thrun figures most cars will drive themselves.


    Robot cars aim to kick up dust / Corporate sponsors chipping in as inventors try out their chops
  • SFGate News Web by Robot cars aim to kick up dust Corporate sponsors chipping in as inventors try out their chops Monday, September 12, 2005 More Business Elsewhere on SFGate Computing Q&A Playing games Stanford professor Stanley Thrun was embarrassed when the specially equipped Volkswagen SUV that he plans to enter in a robotic car race in October had to go into the shop on the very day that a skeptical observer came to visit.
  • . "About 80 percent to 90 percent of the innovation in new cars has to do with electronics, " said Carlo Rummel, director of the Volkswagen Electronics Research Laboratory in Palo Alto.
  • . What if cars could send and receive signals to disclose their presence, especially when approaching curves or corners? "The cars would already know what's going on at the intersection, '' Rummel said.
  • . "Figuring out how to make cars run autonomously." Silicon Graphics Inc., the Mountain View supercomputer company, is helping Carnegie Mellon University -- whose red robotic Hummer went the farthest in last year's competition -- do pre-race planning.


    Audi RSQ Concept - RSportsCars.com
  • Web RSportsCars.com Top 20 Mailing List Subscribe Unsubscribe 2004 Audi RSQ Concept Specifications Engine Type: n.a.
  • . In addition to the RSQ concept car, Audi supplied further volume-production cars which appear - in disguised shapes - in the movies traffic scenes.
  • . Previously, the brand with the four rings has always supplied volume-production cars to movie productions.
  • . In individual cases, such as Mission: Impossible II, these cars were even used in movies before their market launch.
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    On a Desert Highway, Intel® Software, Technology Support Robot Car - Printable Version
  • . "So while there won’t be any robotic cars on the road anytime soon, the work will live on in some form." Additional Resources More information on OpenCV, including instructions on joining the Yahoo!* OpenCV group and a link to a November 2000 Dr.

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