<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/35da5230-d3b6-40a2-97f8-57728d8c3005/4DA40F6B-660F-4260-9DC8-7DB686AC5D38/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.cnet.com/2300-11386_3-10000921.html?tag=nl.e703" href="http://news.cnet.com/2300-11386_3-10000921.html?tag=nl.e703" style="font-size: 11px;">news.cnet.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.cnet.com/2300-11386_3-10000921.html?tag=nl.e703"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/news.cnet.com/img/CC1492F7-F37F-4FF1-8376-BD45C69D1B8A" alt="Junior" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.cnet.com/2300-11386_3-10000921.html?tag=nl.e703"><DIV aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0"><P aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0"></P><P aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0">One of the most visible gauges of the quality of a university's robotics program is how it finishes in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's <A aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0" href="http://news.cnet.com/Drivers-ed-for-robot-racers/2100-11394_3-6188813.html">self-driving car races</A>. </P><P aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0">This car, Stanford University's "Junior," a modified Volkswagen Passat, participated in the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge at a former Air Force base in Oro Grande, Calif.</P><P aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0">Although "Junior" crossed the finish line first, a rival car from Carnegie Mellon University was faster overall.</P><P aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0"></P><P aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0"><STRONG aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0">Photo by</STRONG> Stefanie Olsen/CNET</P><P aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0"><STRONG aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0">Caption by</STRONG> Caroline McCarthy </P></DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/4DA40F6B-660F-4260-9DC8-7DB686AC5D38/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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