Well the Stanford-Intel vehicle came in second place...but read the interesting comments..from the winner about "Junior"... "it looked the most like a human...even to centering itself in the lane...and stated it was downright eerie...processors do make a difference...and are the brains behind everything else...may not be too long before we do have self driving vehicles with no more drunk drivers at the wheel...also the space consumed in the Stanford car was much smaller than the others...in some of the cars, only the driver's seat was open and the rest was taken up with equipment..not in the case of Junior...all in the trunk...BD
VICTORVILLE, Calif. The slow-motion finale of the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge is at an end. After spending the night tabulating the run-times for the six robots that finished the 60-mile course yesterday, and weighing their overall speed against potential penalties for moving violations, the officials at DARPA have come up with a winner. Tartan Racing, the joint effort from Carnegie Mellon University and General Motors, beat out arch-rival Stanford University for the $2 million first prize. Stanford took second place, and Virginia Tech's Victor Tango team took third, winning $1 million and $500,000 respectively.
Tartan's algorithms appear to have come out on top. At least in the context of a race. Even Tartan members admitted that Junior looked the most like a human, or better-than-human, driver. Its ability to consistently center itself in the lane, for example, was downright eerie.
Carnegie Mellon and GM's Boss Wins DARPA Urban Challenge - Popular Mechanics
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