Rossum's Children

The Grand Challenge is underway, and updates are going up every minute in the teams and vehicles section at grandchallenge.org.

The three bots leading the charge this morning, Sandstorm of Red Team, Stanley of the Stanford Racing Team, H1ghlander of Red Team Too are all past the halfway mark.

The bots each pulled away five minutes apart this morning and Sandstorm and H1ghlander have less than 6 miles between them still, over three hours into the course. Stanley is sandwiched between them. He's been losing a bit of ground to H1ghlander, who must have been awarded the pole position for a reason.

The course is 131.7 miles and includes three tunnels. There is still no official route map or visual data available from the webcast, which is dissapointing.