All Teams Re-Run Qualifying Rounds

Oct. 29, 2007
DARPA has announced that all teams must run the qualifying events again, regardless of the results from the first set of runs. Victor Tango is the first team to run on site A, which aims to test merging ability. In this qualifying event, the vehicle is set up on a loop in which it must make left turns across an oncoming traffic lane, and left turns across a busy road from a stop sign. See this run in the video below:

Odin runs course A with a few traffic violations, but overall it is successful. The fairly large crowd that has gathered cheers for Odin as he exits the course. Team Victor Tango, initially considered an underdog, has begun to gain recognition for the quality of their qualifying runs. Upon the conclusion of event A, a news team from the Victorville Daily Press follows the team around. The resulting story can be read on their website at Top Story: Are Robot Cars in our Future?.
The team is very excited to have made the front page of the newspaper, as can be seen at breakfast on the next morning.