Remeber Stanley the world’s first self-driving robot car? For those of you that don’t, Stanley was developed by 39-year-old Stanford professor, Thurn, of electrical engineering and his graduate students. The group won the DARPA Grand Challenge, a 131-mile robot car race across the desert near Las Vegas organized by the Pentagon. Well now GM wants in on the challenge and they are teaming up with Stanford University to develop a self-driving Chevrolet Tahoe to compete in the DARPA 2007 Urban Challenge competition.
The DARPA Urban Challenge competition will be held Nov. 3 in the western United States. GM and Stanford University will be driving their unmanned Chevy Tahoe, while Volkswagen and Stanford will be driving their Volkswagen Passat. Both cars, amongst other vehicles, will have to navigate safely through a 60-mile urban area course with merging traffic, stop signs and busy intersections in less than six hours without any remote control by humans.
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