The Stanford university team, which won DARPA's last 132-mile robotic race through the Mojave Desert event in 2005, has outfitted its more chic Volkswagon Passat with eight laser sensors and two of Intel's quad-core blade servers, dwarfing the Cybervan's processing power.

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The Stanford university team, which won DARPA's last 132-mile robotic race through the Mojave Desert event in 2005, has outfitted its more chic Volkswagon Passat with eight laser sensors and two of Intel's (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ) quad-core blade servers, dwarfing the Cybervan's processing power.

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The rules dictate that a drive-through penalty imposed in the last five laps of the race has to be converted into a 25-second addition to the driver's race time.

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Sebastian Thrun, from Stanford University, burst into the headlines last year by winning a U.S. Defense Department race of autonomous vehicles through the desert.

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In the French race he was given a drive-through penalty for cutting a chicane and in Valencia last month he incurred a 5, 000 euros fine for being late to a news conference.

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