DARPA Grand Challenge (2007)

Main article: DARPA Grand Challenge
A vehicle being developed for the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge

The third driverless car competition of the DARPA Grand Challenge[1] was commonly known as the DARPA Urban Challenge. It took place on November 3, 2007 at the site of the now-closed George Air Force Base (currently used as Southern California Logistics Airport), in Victorville, California (Google map), in the West of the United States.[2] Discovery's Science channel followed a few of the teams and covered the Urban Challenge in its Robocars Archived 2008-07-30 at the Wayback Machine series.[3]

  1. ^ "The contest, called the Grand Challenge and sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or Darpa, featured both robot collisions and robot traffic jams." John Markoff (2007-11-05). "Crashes and Traffic Jams in Military Test of Robotic Vehicles". The New York Times.
  2. ^ Welcome Archived 2007-10-31 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ "Robocars". IMDb.com. Retrieved 22 June 2019.