Race Participants
| # | Vehicle | Team Name | Team Home | Time Taken (h:m) |
Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Stanley | Stanford Racing Team | Stanford University, Palo Alto, California | 6:54 | First place |
| 2. | Sandstorm | Red Team | Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | 7:05 | Second place |
| 3. | H1ghlander | Red Team Too | 7:14 | Third place | |
| 4. | Kat-5 | Team Gray | The Gray Insurance Company, Metairie, Louisiana | 7:30 | Fourth place |
| 5. | TerraMax | Team TerraMax | Oshkosh Truck Corporation, Oshkosh, Wisconsin | 12:51 | Over 10 hour limit, fifth place |
| 6. | DEXTER | Team Ensco | Ensco, Springfield, Virginia | DNF | Out of race at 81 miles; tire blowout after going off-course due to bent frame |
| 7. | Spirit | Axion Racing | Westlake Village, California | DNF | Out of race at 66 miles; got stuck in sand, possibly after mechanical failure in suspension |
| 8. | Cliff | Virginia Tech Grand Challenge Team | Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia | DNF | Out of race at 44 miles due to vehicle motor mechanical problems. |
| 9. | Rocky | Virginia Tech Team Rocky | DNF | Out of race at 39 miles; a steep hill caused the oil in its generator to slosh around. The generator's low-oil sensor went off, cutting power to computers. | |
| 10. | ION | Desert Buckeyes | Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio | DNF | Out of race at 29 miles |
| 11. | DAD | Team DAD | Digital Auto Drive/Velodyne Acoustics, Morgan Hill, California | DNF | Out of race at 26 miles; LIDAR scanner failed, loose wire due to vibration. |
| 12. | Desert Rat | Insight Racing | North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina | DNF | Out of race at 26 miles |
| 13. | Xboxx | Mojavaton | Grand Junction, Colorado | DNF | Out of race at 23.5 miles |
| 14. | Golem 2 | The Golem Group/UCLA | Los Angeles, California | DNF | Out of race at 22 miles; software bug crashed main computer causing 60 mph rampage |
| 15. | CajunBot | Team Cajunbot | University of Louisiana, Lafayette, Louisiana | DNF | Out of race at 17 miles; The motor on the brake actuator burned out when vehicle was paused for about fifty minutes. |
| 16. | RASCAL | SciAutonics/Auburn Engineering | Thousand Oaks, California | DNF | Out of race at 16 miles; software problems |
| 17. | Desert Tortoise | Intelligent Vehicle Safety Technologies | Littleton, Colorado | DNF | Out of race at 14 miles, instability in steering controller caused robot to drive offroad for a power pole. |
| 18. | NaviGATOR | Team CIMAR | University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida | DNF | Out of race at 14 miles; faulty reporting of GPS accuracy caused robot to drive into a bush, where a bug in "blocked path" logic left vehicle unable to recover. |
| 19. | Prospect Eleven | Princeton University | Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey | DNF | Out of race at 10 miles. A code bug slowed down steering and throttle control, sending the robot looping in circles and narrowly missing a clump of reporters. |
| 20. | Spider | Team Cornell | Cornell University, Ithaca, New York | DNF | Out of race at 9 miles; when pause applied, rolled up against a guard rail; when unpaused, could not back away from rail since it had no functional backing software |
| 21. | Alice | Team Caltech | California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California | DNF | Out of race at 8 miles; after GPS reacquisition, veered over barrier and towards media |
| 22. | JackBot | MonsterMoto | Cedar Park, Texas | DNF | Out of race at 7 miles |
| 23. | The Meteor | Mitre Meteorites | MITRE, McLean, Virginia | DNF | Out of race at 1 mile; dust interfered with sensors causing false positive obstacle detection |
DNF = Did Not Finish
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