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Nov 15: NC State and Insight Racing to unveil new vehicle for DARPA Urban Challenge
Start Date: 11-15-2006 :
North Carolina State University and Insight Racing will hold an unveiling of the new vehicle its team will use to compete in the 2007 US government Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Urban Challenge. The event is free to NCTA members.
DARPA created the Grand Challenge events to advance unmanned vehicle driving technology more rapidly, answering a congressional mandate to convert one-third of military vehicles to driverless, computer-driven mode by 2015.
The unveiling ceremony is scheduled for 11 a.m. on Wednesday, November 15th, in front of Engineering Building II on Centennial Campus.
The keynote speaker is Simon Cobb, director of product planning for Lotus Engineering Inc. In addition to the unveiling, other models of the vehicle will be available for limited test drives. Dick Dell, executive director of the Advanced Vehicle Research Center (AVRC), Grayson Randall, founder of Insight Racing, and other members of the team will be available to the press.
The 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge requires teams to create an autonomous vehicle that can drive on city streets, avoid obstacles, stop at intersections, maneuver traffic circles, park, pass traffic and determine the best way to accomplish a mission assigned by DARPA. Major sponsors for the NC State team are the AVRC and Lotus Engineering. The final event is scheduled for November 3, 2007.
For more information about sponsorships of this vehicle or the event, please contact Tara Britt at Tara_Britt@ncsu.edu
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