http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/04/darpas-urban-challenge-ends-all-eleven-cars-cross-the-line/ Engadget Comments for DARPA's Urban Challenge ends: six cars cross the line, CMU takes 1st place http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/04/darpas-urban-challenge-ends-all-eleven-cars-cross-the-line/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/04/darpas-urban-challenge-ends-all-eleven-cars-cross-the-line/Nov 4th 2007 2:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/04/darpas-urban-challenge-ends-all-eleven-cars-cross-the-line/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/04/darpas-urban-challenge-ends-all-eleven-cars-cross-the-line/
From the Popular Mechanics article you linked to:

"...when asked exactly why Terramax was pulled from the race, Tether responded, 'Because it was about ready to knock the building down.' Sounds about right."
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Cheers,
Conrad]]>Nov 4th 2007 4:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/04/darpas-urban-challenge-ends-all-eleven-cars-cross-the-line/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/04/darpas-urban-challenge-ends-all-eleven-cars-cross-the-line/
1st Place - Tartan Racing (Carnegie Mellon)
2nd Place - Stanford Racing Team
3rd Place - Victor Tango (Virginia Tech)]]>Nov 4th 2007 2:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/04/darpas-urban-challenge-ends-all-eleven-cars-cross-the-line/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/04/darpas-urban-challenge-ends-all-eleven-cars-cross-the-line/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darpa_grand_challenge#Race_Participants_2]]>Nov 4th 2007 5:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/04/darpas-urban-challenge-ends-all-eleven-cars-cross-the-line/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/04/darpas-urban-challenge-ends-all-eleven-cars-cross-the-line/Nov 4th 2007 3:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/04/darpas-urban-challenge-ends-all-eleven-cars-cross-the-line/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/04/darpas-urban-challenge-ends-all-eleven-cars-cross-the-line/Nov 4th 2007 3:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/04/darpas-urban-challenge-ends-all-eleven-cars-cross-the-line/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/04/darpas-urban-challenge-ends-all-eleven-cars-cross-the-line/Nov 4th 2007 3:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/04/darpas-urban-challenge-ends-all-eleven-cars-cross-the-line/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/04/darpas-urban-challenge-ends-all-eleven-cars-cross-the-line/Nov 4th 2007 3:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/04/darpas-urban-challenge-ends-all-eleven-cars-cross-the-line/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/04/darpas-urban-challenge-ends-all-eleven-cars-cross-the-line/
Team differences were interesting. Team Tartan was all HOO-ah, kick butt and take names, Vince Lombardi stuff, and a huge frickin' GM gas guzzlin' SUV the way God apparently intended it. Stanford Racing Team was more reserved, with a small, elegant European car, with a downright British, may-the-best-man-win-old-chap attitude.

And of course the head of Stanford Racing (Sebastian Thrun) used to be the star pupil of the head of Team Tartan (Red Whittaker), so you have that whole Obi-Wan to Anakin, "But you were the chosen one!" drama there. Perhaps they should have had the robot cars race over volcanic lava and had it set to music by John Williams.

Congratulations to CMU, Team Tartan and Red Whittaker. Many thanks to the other participants -- particularly Cornell and and MIT for the comic relief fender bender.
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VT's Odin looked like Yoda out there, very relaxed and confident. I guess MIT looked like General Grievous, sick and sputtering. MIT's car apparently has "road rage" programmed into it. When it cut off and crashed into Cornell I could imagine a robotic finger sticking out the window.

It was a great competition and I was really surprised to see Jamie Hyneman as an announcer. The best part of the race, however, was the air raid themed town that the competition was held in. ]]>Nov 4th 2007 5:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/04/darpas-urban-challenge-ends-all-eleven-cars-cross-the-line/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/04/darpas-urban-challenge-ends-all-eleven-cars-cross-the-line/What do you mean by first timers? Virginia Tech was in the previous DARPA challenges. Was there some other challenge I never heard of?]]>Nov 4th 2007 5:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/04/darpas-urban-challenge-ends-all-eleven-cars-cross-the-line/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/04/darpas-urban-challenge-ends-all-eleven-cars-cross-the-line/
I stand corrected. In any event, way to make some Ivy League boys eat your dust. ;-) Go Hokies!
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go guys who lost, there is always another competition! ]]>Nov 4th 2007 4:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/04/darpas-urban-challenge-ends-all-eleven-cars-cross-the-line/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/04/darpas-urban-challenge-ends-all-eleven-cars-cross-the-line/
In other words, it drives like an asshole in a hurry. Hopefully the Stanford car is the one they produce!]]>Nov 4th 2007 4:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/04/darpas-urban-challenge-ends-all-eleven-cars-cross-the-line/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/04/darpas-urban-challenge-ends-all-eleven-cars-cross-the-line/Nov 4th 2007 4:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/04/darpas-urban-challenge-ends-all-eleven-cars-cross-the-line/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/04/darpas-urban-challenge-ends-all-eleven-cars-cross-the-line/Nov 4th 2007 4:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/04/darpas-urban-challenge-ends-all-eleven-cars-cross-the-line/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/04/darpas-urban-challenge-ends-all-eleven-cars-cross-the-line/
(leans on horn) The light is green. You can go now. While we're YOUNG.
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By the way, he said hi-jacking the thread, I watched this on the worldchallenge/darpa live streaming website. I use WMP11 which is incompatible with the audio codec 9.2 used by this (and some other sites which are technically based on WMP9). Not eve Mr SOfty has found a solution for me yet as I can't DL the 9.2 audio codec on my PC which uses W XP Pro. I am desperate to solve this problem.]]>Nov 4th 2007 5:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/04/darpas-urban-challenge-ends-all-eleven-cars-cross-the-line/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/04/darpas-urban-challenge-ends-all-eleven-cars-cross-the-line/Nov 4th 2007 6:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/04/darpas-urban-challenge-ends-all-eleven-cars-cross-the-line/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/04/darpas-urban-challenge-ends-all-eleven-cars-cross-the-line/Nov 4th 2007 8:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/04/darpas-urban-challenge-ends-all-eleven-cars-cross-the-line/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/04/darpas-urban-challenge-ends-all-eleven-cars-cross-the-line/Nov 4th 2007 8:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/04/darpas-urban-challenge-ends-all-eleven-cars-cross-the-line/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/04/darpas-urban-challenge-ends-all-eleven-cars-cross-the-line/Nov 4th 2007 10:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/04/darpas-urban-challenge-ends-all-eleven-cars-cross-the-line/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/04/darpas-urban-challenge-ends-all-eleven-cars-cross-the-line/Nov 5th 2007 1:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/04/darpas-urban-challenge-ends-all-eleven-cars-cross-the-line/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/04/darpas-urban-challenge-ends-all-eleven-cars-cross-the-line/
As the popular saying goes

Sex Kills
Come to CMU and live forever]]>Nov 5th 2007 5:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/04/darpas-urban-challenge-ends-all-eleven-cars-cross-the-line/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/04/darpas-urban-challenge-ends-all-eleven-cars-cross-the-line/
Carnegie does have a makeup of 40% women. You can have sex if you really want to, just that all of the ones you'd actually want to have sex with go to Oakland to get guys from Pitt. Damn Panthers!!!!!]]>Nov 5th 2007 1:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/04/darpas-urban-challenge-ends-all-eleven-cars-cross-the-line/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/04/darpas-urban-challenge-ends-all-eleven-cars-cross-the-line/
Iridium- are you still a student there? ]]>Nov 5th 2007 1:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/04/darpas-urban-challenge-ends-all-eleven-cars-cross-the-line/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/04/darpas-urban-challenge-ends-all-eleven-cars-cross-the-line/Nov 28th 2007 2:49PM