Carnegie Mellon Wins Urban Challenge 153
ThinkingInBinary writes "The results from the Urban Challenge are in! Carnegie Mellon's Tartan Racing team came in first (earning a $2 million prize), followed by Stanford's Stanford Racing team in second (earning $1 mil) and Virginia Tech's Victor Tango in third (earning $500k). Cornell's Team Cornell, University of Pennsylvania and Lehigh University's Ben Franklin Racing Team, and MIT, also finished the race in that order."
For those who love to RTFA (Score:1, Informative)
MIT came in fourth! (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Any opensource out of this ? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:The importance of this race cannot be overstate (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Any opensource out of this ? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Open source ...if only. (Score:3, Informative)
Most of the teams in the UC spent more on their car than was offered in prize money. They still profit because a lot of that spending was subsidized by corporations (note the logos all over the cars). Nonetheless, the money has to come from somewhere. Without the car, sensors, and testing area, an open source contributor could only look for the most obvious bugs.
Now, what they should release are their algorithms and design methods. But making the actual source code development open source would not help the state of the art progress "gigantically." Remember also that these machines are often purpose built using some amount of custom hardware. What works with one setup and for one car type will not necessarily work for another. It's like saying Open Darwin helps Microsoft. It could, in theory, help a few things, but most are so inherently incompatible that it's more trouble than it's worth.
Re:The importance of this race cannot be overstate (Score:3, Informative)
Re:The importance of this race cannot be overstate (Score:4, Informative)
Congratulations to the German team for... (Score:2, Informative)
http://www.darpa.mil/grandchallenge/Teams/TeamAnnieway.asp [darpa.mil]
Re:Any opensource out of this ? (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Bad accounting principles helped CMG? (Score:3, Informative)
Webcast available (Score:1, Informative)