route, with more frequent waypoints in difficult patches. Some teams used topographic maps and aerial imagery to manually map out and program precise path and speed settings. Once the race had started, the robots were not allowed to contact humans in any way. Each robot started at a different time and was "paused" for different amounts of time during the race; DARPA compensated for the staggered start times and subtracted the pause time from each robot's total to derive its final official time. The $2 million prize was awarded on Sunday, October 9, 2005. The 2005 competitors were much more successful than those of 2004; only one failed to pass the mark set by the best-performing 2004 entry, Sandstorm. By the end, 18 robots had been disabled and five robots finished the course. On the first day, Stanley from Stanford University, and H1ghlander and Sandstorm from Carnegie Mellon University, finished within minutes of each other, with Stanley crossing the finish line first. Kat-5 from Gray Team started much later, but finished in a comparable time. The race paused overnight with one competitor, TerraMax, left on the course at mile 83; TerraMax had the stage to itself on Sunday as it belatedly rumbled home. The winner of the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge was Stanley, with a course time of 6 hours 53 minutes and 8 seconds (6:53:08) with average speed of . CMU's Sandstorm followed with 7:04:50 at and H1ghlander at 7:14:00 at . Gray Team's Kat-5 came through at 7:30:16 with average speed of . Oshkosh Truck's Terramax finished at 12:51 and would not have been eligible for the prize because it exceeded the ten-hour limit. The Official Website (requires Flash player plugin) contained a map and positions of the competitors, while TG Daily posted a running summary of the day's events. Race participants DNF = did not finish Team sites American Industrial Magic Autonomous Vehicle Engineers (Team AVE) Autonomous Vehicle Systems (semi-finalist 2005) A.I. Motorvators (semi-finalist 2004, 2005) Armani (dead link, leave for history) Austin Robot Technology (semi-finalist 2005) Axion Racing (finalist 2004, 2005) BJB Engineering (semi-finalist 2005) Blue Revolution Racing(dead link, leave for history) BYUc (New team 2007) Blue Team (finalist 2004; semi-finalist 2005) CarOLO Cornell DARPA Team (finalist 2005) CyberRider (semi-finalist 2004, 2005) Desert Buckeyes (2004, finalist 2005) FutureNowa Grand Challenge Autonomous Race Team Gray Team (finisher 2005) The Golem Group (finalist 2004, 2005) Highlander Racing Insight