Maybe you saw Team Jefferson demo their lovable robot vehicle at Star Hill a few weekend ago. Maybe, not.
What is this all about? Team Jeff gives the lowdown:
In 2007, a new challenge, the Urban Challenge, will take place with autonomous vehicles navigating city driving conditions, merging with traffic, obeying traffic laws, parallel parking, and many other new challenges. The Urban Challenge requires that vehicles autonomously navigate over 60 miles of such conditions in 6 hours or less. A first prize of $2 million is being offered followed by a $500k second prize and $250k third prize. Team Jefferson intends to be there.
But, as you can see from the gallery of the vehicles, UVA didn’t make the cut. Smarter schools like MIT, UPENN and Stanford made it. Sorry guys, better luck next year. Did the S. Street beer have anything to do with it?
If you are really interested, you can watch the event live on Saturday at 7:30AM. Wohoo, you know where cVillains are gonna be.
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