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GM and Carnegie Mellon get together on driverless vehicles

If you're really looking forward to the day when your car says, "You just relax, Dave, and let me do the driving," it just got a little bit closer. GM and Carnegie Mellon University have announced a 5-year, $5 million Collaborative Research Laboratory (CRL) to do work on autonomous vehicles. Carnegie Mellon's Tartan Racing entrant in last year's DARPA Urban Challenge, Boss (pictured), was the first across the line. The winning partnership and the $2 million winners check made it a natural fit for the two to combine on further research now ... Read more →

Autoline on Autoblog with John McElroy John McElroy

John McElroy is host of the TV program "Autoline Detroit". Every week he'll bring his unique insights as an auto industry insider to Autoblog readers. click above image for more live shots from ...

GM-powered Carnegie Mellon team take first prize at DARPA Damon Lavrinc

After the DARPA dust settled, only 40 minutes separated the first, second and third place contenders for this year's $2 million bounty. The Carnegie Mellon team, behind the virtual wheel of a ...

2007 DARPA Urban Grand Challenge winds up Dan Roth

click above image for more pics from the 2007 DARPA Urban Grand Challenge Route 66 passes right through Victorville, California, which is also home to the Route 66 Museum. Much breathless prose has ...

Autoline on Autoblog with John McElroy John McElroy

John McElroy is host of the TV program "Autoline Detroit". Every week he'll bring his unique insights as an auto industry insider to Autoblog readers. LOOK MA, NO HANDS! By John McElroy There are so ...

DARPA Urban Challenge field narrowed to 53 teams 2 years ago on Autoblog

We've told you about the DARPA Urban Challenge and previewed several of the cars that are entered, including Stanley. Stanley is the autonomous Volkswagen Passat from the same Stanford Racing Team that won the last DARPA Grand Challenge. As a reminder, the Urban Challenge takes the idea of ...

Team LUX readies sleek Passat TDI for DARPA Urban Challenge 2 years ago on Autoblog

The upcoming DARPA Urban Challenge set to take place this fall will be an extraordinary test of autonomous systems being developed for automotive applications. Previous DARPA challenges contained entrants with all sorts of hardcore, computer-powered gear littering their exteriors. Giant rotating ...

First Look: Stanford's 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge entrant, "Junior" 2 years ago on Autoblog

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is part of the US Defense Department, and it provides funding to all kinds of researchers for projects that might at some point have a useful military application. Over the last several decades they have funded many projects, some of which have ...

Robo-exotica: NC State snags Lotus Elise for '07 DARPA Challenge 3 years ago on Autoblog

Now this is what we call an upgrade: NC State University's Insight Racing team has scored a new set of wheels for the upcoming 2007 DARPA Grand Challenge. The team's Chevrolet Suburban, dubbed "Desert Rat" for the last DARPA challenge, which sent vehicles across the Mojave in the final event, will ...

2007 DARPA Grand Challenge - cash prizes are out, trophies are in 3 years ago on Autoblog

Every week, in garages around the world, amateur racers spend their hard-earned day-job dollars repairing and improving all sorts of racecars, with one goal in mind - winning a tacky plastic trophy on the weekend. Now the U.S. government has honored that hallowed tradition, announcing that the ...






Autoblog Podcast #154: Gobbling up the News

Chris, Sam, and Dan kick out a podcast just in time for the long holiday drive.

 
 

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