Team Gray Participates in 2007 Urban Challenge NQE

METAIRIE, LA - December 14, 2007 - GrayMatter Inc. would like to congratulate Team Gray, and their robot 'Plan B,' on their performance in the DARPA Urban Challenge's National Qualifying Event(NQE). This accomplishment not only shows the engineering prowess and dedication of the developers involved, but also the flexibility of the AVS™ platform. We here at GrayMatter inc. are proud of the effort and accomplishment of the entire team.

"Path following was the least of our concerns," said development engineer Powell Kinney. "By starting with the AVS™ platform we were able to focus on the task of identifying and navigating traffic without worrying about driving the car." The accomplishment of such a small team was largely facilitated be the robustness and precision of the AVS™. By utilizing the excellent safety systems built into the AVS™ to monitor the experimental traffic software, Team Gray was able to develop Plan B at an incredible pace without compromising the safety of the system.

The team passed the safety checks without a problem and quickly moved on to the evaluation runs DARPA had planned. The design of Plan B incorporated safety to such a fine level that DARPA's restrictive courses confused Plan B, causing it to often stop instead of proceed into a potentially unsafe situation. "Plan B's sensors make no differentiation between a safety barrier and a real world object. We treated all stationary objects with the same degree of caution; trees, concrete barriers, and houses were all given the same margin of safety." It was this caution that caused Plan B not to complete all of it's qualification runs and lead to it's eventual disqualification.

GrayMatter, Inc. is an affiliate of Gray & Company, Inc. headquartered in Metairie, Louisiana. The company's principal business provides primary liability insurance coverage to companies engaged in oil and gas, marine and construction activities.

About GrayMatter, Inc.

GrayMatter, Inc. provides integrated software and hardware solutions that facilitate autonomous operation of motor vehicles. The GrayMatter AVS™ integrates with virtually any commercially available environmental sensors and GPS systems to allow the vehicle to navigate a selected route while dynamically avoiding obstacles and obeying traffic laws as would a human driver. GrayMatter was founded in 2005 to participate in the DARPA Grand Challenge, a 132 mile race across the desert in which it was the fourth-finishing team, and was semi-finalist in the 2007 Urban Challenge. For additional information, navigate to www.graymatterinc.com.