The Stanford university team, which won DARPA's last 132-mile robotic racethroughthe 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.
The Stanford university team, which won DARPA's last 132-mile robotic racethroughthe 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.
The rules dictate that a drive-through penalty imposed in thelast five laps of therace has to be converted into a 25-second addition to the driver's race time.