2008 Toyota Grand Prix To Include Robot Race-Off
Writing by Evan Ackerman on Tuesday, 1 of April , 2008 at 3:30 am
There’s some kind of car race thing going on in Long Beach on April 20… Toyta Grand Prix? Well, whatever, the only car race I know of (or actually care about) is the one run by DARPA, involving totally autonomous cars. Luckily, Toyota is starting to clue in to what’s really exciting, and have added an autonomous race to this year’s lineup. There will be 3 vehicles, each one of which has already proved its mettle at the Urban Challenge, including Boss (the winner from CMU), Junior (the runner up from Stanford), and Ben, the sixth place finisher from UPenn and Lehigh. They’ve only been asked to do one lap of the 1.97-mile, 11-turn circuit (without obstacles, I assume), with the quickest time winning. It may be less challenging than the urban course from last year, but one thing’s for sure: it’ll be a heck of a lot faster.
Category: Artificial Intelligence, Competitive
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