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Grand Challenge Updates
Details from the Grand Challenge will posted here as soon as the information has
been made available. These updates will contain information posted by the Red
Team as it becomes available.Most Current Post-> 10-9-05; 1:00pm The race has been won. Stanford's "Stanley" has taken the prize, but with 5 vehicles finishing the challenge, the Technology and the field are the real winners. Sandstorm's official time was 7:04;50 and H1ghlander's was 7:14;00. Photos of the medal ceremony: [ Sandstorm Team | Bear | H1ghlander Team | Groundhog ] 10-8-05; 5:30pm Officially, DARPA has announced that "There is a Grand Challenge winner, but we are just not sure who it is yet". DARPA will pause vehicles overnight, and finish the challenge tomorrow, the 9th. This marks the end of this blog for today. 10-8-05; 4:10pm Video Time: [ Sandstorm Finish | H1ghlander Finish ] 10-8-05; 3:00pm DARPA has yet to release the official scores and times. Stay Tuned [ Checking out H1ghlander after the race ] 10-8-05; 2:25pm Both Robots Finish! Details and Times to follow [ Highlander photo , Photo 2 | Sandstorm photo, Photo 2 | The first 3 to finish.] 10-8-05; 12:50pm With the race finish close at hand, we have lost all visuals of our robots. Keep checking DARPAs update page. 10-8-05; 10:30am Images of both Sandstorm and H1ghlander from mile 68 10-8-05; 9:42am Sandstorm passes the 68 mile mark. 10-8-05; 9:25am H1ghlander passes 68 mile mark 10-8-05; 9:20am You can visualize the route using Google Maps! 10-8-05; 9:15am The writing is in the sky 10-8-05; 8:43am The team shares highpoints of the route from their mapping application [ here ] 10-8-05; 8:10am H1glander and Sandstorm has passed the 30 mile mile mark [ Highlander photo | Sandstorm photo ] 10-8-05; 7:20am H1ghlander and Sandstorm pass the 8 mile mark. [ Highlander photo | Sandstorm photo ] 10-8-05; 6:40am H1ghlander | Sandstorm | Starting Lineup | H1ghlander Video | Sandstorm Video 10-8-05; 6:30am Both robots are in the pit [ 1 2 ] and the world is watching. 10-8-05; 6:00am The route is made and both Sandstorm and H1ghlander are ready to go 10-8-05; 5:10am Preplanning continues. The vehicle teams are performing their final checks: [ 1 2 3 ] 10-8-05; 4:00am Red receives the RDDF cd, Preplanning begins 10-8-05; 3:30am Preplanning begins race morning preparations. 10-8-05; 3:00am Game Day Begins. 10-7-05; 11:00am DARPA officials launched the vehicles from the starting chutes. H1ghlander and Sandstorm drove a short distance. DARPA paused the vehicles to check the E-stops, everything was solid. 10-6-05; 2:00pm The team has arrived and set up the pit and trailers |
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