pretty cool they they got a new Losus Elise to do the competition with



Two recent Technician articles about it
http://www.technicianonline.com/media/storage/paper848
/news/2006/11/14/Features/Shifting.Into.Automatic-2457115.
shtml?norewrite200611161414&sourcedomain=www.technicianonline.com

http://www.technicianonline.com/media/storage/paper848
/news/2006/11/16/News/Engineers.Unveil.lone.Wolf.Project-
2462543.shtml?sourcedomain=www.technicianonline.com&MIIHost=media.collegepublisher.com



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11/16/2006 2:15:19 PM

ashy to classy


the winning car last year was a VW Touraeg from a Stanford U team.

11/16/2006 2:34:44 PM

yeah, but our team supposedly only put 55,000 into the the suburban and Stanford put about $4 million into that VW

11/16/2006 4:53:09 PM

That Suburban did DAMN WELL.

I'm not sure a lotus is a very good car to make autonomous... Seems to me that something with more room inside and more ground clearance (for WHEN it goes over a curb) would be better and less expensive.

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11/16/2006 4:56:20 PM

sure it's small inside, but it's not like you need seats and all the other human control interfaces

11/16/2006 5:07:17 PM

how many threads does this have about it now

11/16/2006 5:11:10 PM

The Lotus was $Free, I'm sure they'll make anything work that doesn't cost anything

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11/16/2006 5:28:34 PM

How about we place some bets... This thing isnt going to make it 10'

11/16/2006 5:37:49 PM

did they change the competition so that its not on a rough dirt road now?

11/16/2006 5:40:51 PM

"Urban Challenge"

11/16/2006 5:45:57 PM

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"how many threads does this have about it now"

i searched and didn't find any . . . oh well

11/16/2006 6:50:02 PM

i made one down below about DARPA's Grand Challenge. This is DARPA's Urban Challenge car.

11/16/2006 7:25:39 PM

they are two different contests ^

OMARBADU FOR THE LOSS (OFTL)

11/17/2006 8:36:15 PM

ah thought i had seen this before - maybe it wasn't in the garage and was elsewhere - good catch bob ryan (brftw)

11/18/2006 2:30:20 PM

its pretty neat. i know the guy who leads insight racing. he said he is going to change the transmission and put in power steering and have AC going to the trunk.

i am glad there is some sexy publicity from state.

11/18/2006 6:18:32 PM

it would have been more appropriate if they had donated the red one instead of the blue one

11/19/2006 6:01:54 PM

I agree, a quick paint job is definitely in order.

11/20/2006 11:34:33 AM

Yea I don't know much about the DARPA challenge other then the fact that it goes off road.

I don't know how that would work with the elise.

11/20/2006 11:50:30 AM

^ as stated above this the DARPA urban challenge.

"Teams will compete to build an autonomous vehicle able to complete a 60-mile urban course safely in less than 6 hours."

I think this is taking the place of the Grand Challenge (off road) this year but I couldn't tell for sure.

Lotus should be fine for urban driving. I guess an SUV would be better if you accidentally hop onto a curb though...

11/20/2006 12:06:39 PM

"complete a 60-mile urban course safely"

Hmm, might preclude hopping a curb anyways. Practice/QA/testing will suck for that poor Lotus though, lol

11/20/2006 12:24:30 PM