DARPA: Results Are In
The grand challenges is now over and the DARPA Urban Challenge winners have been announced! The results rolled in on November 4, 2007 as DARPA director Tony Tether revealed the names of the winning teams of his agency's robot car race, the Urban Challenge.
First Place goes to the Tartan Racing team of Pittsburgh, PA. Second Place goes to Stanford Racing Team of Stanford, CA. Rounding out the 3rd Place was the Victor Tango team from Blacksburg, VA.
As Tether announced the third and then second place, he finished off by telling the audience and candidates an anecdote about his college and graduate school days at Stanford University. This done to delay the announcement of the first place winner, but there was only one obvious team left; Carnegie Mellon was the only other team among the finalist who where in the top three finishers that hadn't been announced.
Tether couldn't have been more pleased with the race, calling it a "fantastic accomplishment," and saying that the technology for robotic vehicles was now just about ready for other companies and organizations to pick up the work in honing it further. "DARPA is an interesting organization," he said. "We really never finish anything. All we really do is show that it can be done.
I believe that we have come a long way in the last two decades in the technology front and DARPA has put up these challenges to show that not only it can be done, but that it will get done.
First Place goes to the Tartan Racing team of Pittsburgh, PA. Second Place goes to Stanford Racing Team of Stanford, CA. Rounding out the 3rd Place was the Victor Tango team from Blacksburg, VA.As Tether announced the third and then second place, he finished off by telling the audience and candidates an anecdote about his college and graduate school days at Stanford University. This done to delay the announcement of the first place winner, but there was only one obvious team left; Carnegie Mellon was the only other team among the finalist who where in the top three finishers that hadn't been announced.
Tether couldn't have been more pleased with the race, calling it a "fantastic accomplishment," and saying that the technology for robotic vehicles was now just about ready for other companies and organizations to pick up the work in honing it further. "DARPA is an interesting organization," he said. "We really never finish anything. All we really do is show that it can be done.
I believe that we have come a long way in the last two decades in the technology front and DARPA has put up these challenges to show that not only it can be done, but that it will get done.
