Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE enters next phase of Competition

On October 19, 2009, the Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE announced that 53 vehicles from 43 teams, from 18 US States and 11 countries had made it through the stringent Design Judging phase. These teams will now be entering the final competition events that will be taking place from May 2010 with the announcement of the winners that Fall. On the same day, Dash+, a high school contest to design the dashboard of the vehicle of the future was launched. Part of the Progressive Automotive X PRIZE Education Program, it is supported by the US Department of Energy and Discovery Education. Find out more at: fuelourfuturenow.com/contest or go to: progressiveautoxprize.org

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[Guesswhokk]

Will there be a marathon race? Since there is no better data for improvement than putting these technology to the real world like practicality and reliability (unlike Le Man).

[mad3sk8]

INSANE-4-Meters is going to win!!!