Carnegie Mellon University ’s Tartan Racing Team indicate us who ’s Bos on Saturday with a succeed motortruck named Boss . The Chevy Tahoe golem SUV was stand up with microcomputer and sensors that guide it safely through a complicated city street course , winning the $ 2 million Urban Challenge prize from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ( DARPA ) .
The winner pilot the 60 - naut mi course of simulated city street and parking good deal in about six minute , avoiding its challenging automaton vehicles as well as other automobile driven by stunt driver . While there was a fragile collision between the cars from Cornell and MIT , and Terramax , the 12 - ton motortruck from Team Oshkosh almost ran into a construction , the objector plainly beat all thedramatic clang out of the direction in the qualifying roundslast calendar week .
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take home the $ 1 million 2nd - place plunder was Stanford University ’s robot named Junior , and third was Odin , the car from Virginia Tech , advance the $ 500,000 prize . Our fave , that Lotus Elisefrom N.C. State University did n’t win , but there ’s always next year . [ Technology ReviewandRobot Central ]
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