13th March .
DARPA Barstow to Vegas autonomous vehicle challenge
$US1 million first and only prize.
Truly autonomous operation BUT with a DARPA tail safety officer per vehicle.

250 mile cross country course.
10 hour max time limit.

DARPA site

        http://www.darpa.mil/grandchallenge/

Non DARPA site (incl photos, live tracking etc)

        http://www.grandchallenge.org/

Made this EE on purpose.
Hard to imagine that the state of the art is good enough to allow this sort
of ability autonomously.

Pictures (fascinating)

        http://www.grandchallenge.org/gallery/

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