The 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge afforded the golden opportunity for theTechnische Universit\"at Braunschweig to demonstrate its abilities to developan autonomously driving vehicle to compete with the world's best competitors.After several stages of qualification, our team CarOLO qualified early for theDARPA Urban Challenge Final Event and was among only eleven teams frominitially 89 competitors to compete in the final. We had the ability to worktogether in a large group of experts, each contributing his expertise in hisdiscipline, and significant organisational, financial and technical support bylocal sponsors who helped us to become the best non-US team. In this report, wedescribe the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge, our contribution "Caroline", thetechnology and algorithms along with her performance in the DARPA UrbanChallenge Final Event on November 3, 2007.
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