In an effort to stay on the bleeding edge of old crap-bucket technology, the 24 Hours of LeMons has now created a prize specifically for autonomous vehicles. The X Ceedingly Bad Idea Prize will award one million shiny new nickels to the first team that manages to pilot an autonomous vehicle to a win. We assume that carries a caveat of not killing anyone in the process. As always, the vehicle itself can’t cost more than 0, though the associated technological wizardry required to keep the driverless machine on the track doesn’t count toward that grand total.

Madness? Probably, but we would feel more comfortable sharing the course with a computer than some of the tactically inept drivers we’ve seen bashing around the track in our time. The next 24 Hours of LeMons race kicks off at New Jersey Motorsports Park on April 14-15, but you need to get your application in by February 4. Get cracking, people. In the meantime, hit the jump to check out the press release.

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If you weren’t aware already, the Woodward Dream Cruise is set to rumble through Detroit this Saturday. Our friends from Autoline have already made their way over to the famed stretch of road, and are bringing their Autoline After Hours show to you live from the street.

John McElroy and Peter De Lorenzo will be there to talk classic iron, and the pair have invited a few guests to join in the enthusiast banter. You can watch it all unfold live after the jump. The start time is scheduled for 7PM EST.

Also, be sure to tune in to our own coverage of the Dream Cruise this Saturday. We’ve got our team assembled, and like years past, we’ll be live streaming the entire cruise live so those not in attendance can see the thousands of cars that will be there. We’ve obsessively covered the Dream Cruise in the past, but this year we are even more obsessed… so stay tuned for a surprise.

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REFERENCES:

http://director.usacracing.com/ppihc/files/pdfs/competitor_list.pdf

PPIK Competitor List

http://adac.24h-rennen.de/uploads/media/Teilnehmerliste_15_06_2011_01.pdf

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