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C'est Raoul @ Nov 5th 2007 12:05PM
In an article, I read a Florida university was using a Subaru Legacy from one of the technician stepwife or something like that. So almost a giveway vehicule. Their budget was like 150,000$US. I guess a bigger team probably has +1/2 million budget. It's part of university's normal R&D. It's hard to put money on it. I am pretty sure some teams had budgets for a half million for electronics, expenses and stuff (some get a lot of free stuff as well, car, computer, radars etc.).
Take into account time spent, techniciens paid on regular budgets and such. It's a multimillion budget for some of them.