It's been 10 years since the DARPA Urban Challenge. Maybe it's time for another self-driving car competition?<p>One possibility is an automaker that wants self-driving car technology would agree to acquire the winner for a certain price, but this would already exclude most of the big players (Waymo, Cruise, Argo, Delphi, Uber).<p>Another possibility is the competition is funded by the big auto corporations in order to advertise who has the best technology, similar to racing events.<p>The biggest benefit from a public competition like this would be to improve public perception of self-driving cars so they're more receptive to the technology (and more likely to buy it).