Intel-sponsored teams take one and two in DARPA unmanned vehicle race

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The $2 million prize for this year's big unmanned-vehicle race, the DARPA Urban Challenge – held in Victorville, California last Saturday (November 3) – was won by Tartan Racing, one of two teams sponsored by CPU-giant Intel. Second place - and $1 million - was taken by the Stanford Racing Team, also backed by Intel.

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Its nice to see something useful being developed, the money prizes sound like allot but not compared to actual military spending n such projects. Such technology's are now being used in real life cars too, so hopefully at some point it will benefit the general public too.