Tartan Racing · research vehicle
Boss
A modified Chevrolet Tahoe that drove itself through a mock town of traffic, intersections and parking lots with no one aboard.
- Price
- —research vehicle, not sold
- Autonomy
- DriverlessHow it runs
- Driverless
- TestingSince 2007-11-03
- Fleet
- —Not published
- Speed
- —Not published
- Range
- —Not published
Why it matters
Won the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge and its $2 million prize, finishing in 4 h 10 min on 3 November 2007.
Real-world use
No customers or deployments reported yet.
Maker
Tartan RacingCompanyHow it drives
Fleet and city figures move fast; each carries its date and who reported it.
- Driverless status
- Driverless tests only
- Where it runs
- Former George Air Force Base, Victorville, California
- Driverless since
- 2007-11-03
- Rides, miles or loads
- About 89-96 km of urban missions at about 22 km/h average (DARPA, 2007)
Public attention
A historic robot: no longer sold or in use, so it is not ranked against current vehicles.
- No Wikipedia article of its own yet
- No recent press stories listed yet
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What’s inside
No component details published yet.
- Movement
- Wheeled base
- How it runs
- Fully autonomous. Does its job with nobody at the controls.
From the maker
Boss is the only vehicle from Tartan Racing (Carnegie Mellon University and General Motors) in the atlas.
Made, sold and where
No production or sales figures published yet.
- Price
- Not publishedresearch vehicle, not sold
- How to get one
- No official buying page found
Side by side with its peers
Picked by the same rules for every robot: another maker’s robot that moves the same way, is at the same stage and does at least one of the same main jobs, first shown within two years. Closer size and price rank higher. Few robots match closely, so these are the nearest matches. How we choose
| Measure | BossTartan Racing (Carnegie Mellon University and General Motors) |  JuniorStanford Racing Team (Stanford University)Same job: DARPA Urban Challenge · Both on wheels · Both past robots |
|---|---|---|
| First shown | 2007-11-03 | 2007-11-03 |
| Status | Retired | Retired |
| Height | — | — |
| Weight | — | — |
| Joints | — | — |
| Speed | — | — |
| Payload | — | — |
| Battery | — | — |
| Price | — | — |
Sources
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