Slow and Steady Wins the Race

IF 2.6 4区工程技术 Q2 ENGINEERING, ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC

IEEE Spectrum Pub Date : 2025-02-06 DOI:10.1109/MSPEC.2025.10876448

Allison Marsh

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Abstract

On 8 October 2005, Stanley, an autonomous vehicle developed by the Stanford Racing Team, eked out a first-place victory in the second DARPA Grand Challenge. The modified Volkswagen Touareg averaged a leisurely 31 kilometers per hour to complete the 212-kilometer off-road course in 6 hours, 54 minutes. Along the way, it overtook the expected winner, Carnegie Mellon's H1ghlander, which had been well in the lead before suffering a mysterious engine glitch. The fact that any vehicle made it across the finish line at all was a testament to the massive improvements in autonomous driving that had taken place in just a year and a half. At the first Grand Challenge, held in March 2004, the lead vehicle completed just 12 km, and many didn't make it out of the parking lot.

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IEEE Spectrum 工程技术-工程：电子与电气

CiteScore

2.50

自引率

0.00%

发文量

254

审稿时长

4-8 weeks

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