Eventful Qualifying Weekend

This past weekend saw the start of the qualification rounds for the 2007 Urban Challenge. While there’s a lot of day-to-day robotics engineering going on, much of the coverage in the news media has focused on the possibility for specatular robot-wars-style crashes. And, sure enough, Sting Racing complied by ramming its Porsche Cayenne into a barrier at an estimated 24 mph. This story in the Ventura County Star does a much better job of capturing the true goings-on.