Last year the student teams from Virginia Tech dominated the autonomous vehicle competitions by almost sweeping the Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition taking 8 of 9 available prizes (1st, 2nd & 3rd in Navigation Challenge, 1st, 2nd & 3rd in Autonomous Challenge and 1st & 2nd in Design) and winning the 1st place overall in the International Aerial Robotics Competition.

So much for last year. With automomous vehicle competition season just starting we have just received news of success in another arena. The Va Tech team has won the ChallengeX competion. ChallengeX is a competition for university teams to build practical fuel efficient vehicles based on current production models of Detroit made vehicles. Three cheers for that engineering powerhouse in the mountains of Virginia.