Most Interesting Cornell Event Of The Weekend?

After hockey naturally. But probably more important than football at this point.

DARPA Urban Road Rally

Cornell is one of 11 finalists competing on Saturday out of 35 entrants.
Cornell team page

Update: Cornell is one of six entrants still on the course after both private sector teams, two German teams, and UCF either crashed in the literal sense or the computer sense.

Update: Cornell and MIT vehicles collide but still in the competition. MIT at fault.

Update: Stanford finishes first followed by Carnegie Mellon, Virgina Tech and Penn. Cornell and MIT are still on the course. Official results will combine time with deductions for traffic violations.

Team Cornell was one of 6 teams to complete the course, an incredible accomplishment!

Consider that 89 teams started the competition a little over a year ago, and that the field was narrowed down to 35 for the qualification events over the past 10 days or so.

Of those 35, 11 teams were considered strong enough to actually race, and 6 of those 11 finished the race.

The official results and standings won't be announced until tomorrow (like nyc94 said, the results will combine time with penalties for violating rules), but regardless how things turn out, completing the course is a tremendous accomplishment.

Congrats Team Cornell!

nyc94
Update: Stanford finishes first followed by Carnegie Mellon, Virgina Tech and Penn. Cornell and MIT are still on the course. Official results will combine time with deductions for traffic violations.

Final results:
1. CMU
2. Stanford
3. VA Tech
4. MIT
5-6: Cornell & Penn

Official Results

Wired has a great blog about the competition, including a detailed entry about the MIT-Cornell "crash."

[blog.wired.com]

Victor Tango's For Escape hybrid, Odin, hopped a curb and drove with two wheels off the road at one point (it quickly recovered), and Stanford's Junior made a questionable passing maneuver to avoid a traffic jam in its lane.

So VA Tech's entry decided to go off-roading, given its Blue Ridge Mountain upbringing, and Stanford's already knows how to drive in Bay Area traffic.