Given the somewhat unimpressive attempts at robotic vehicles in DARPA’s Grand Challenge, Volkswagen’s vehicle is quite something:
On a race circuit, it drove itself faster and more precisely than the VW engineers could manage – and can accelerate independently up to its top speed of 150mph.Of course, they’d better work in automatic horn usage and rude gestures if they want this thing to survive on the streets of Boston.To prove it is no trick, guests were invited to design for themselves a variety of different courses – using road cones – and then watch the car fly around them on its own at a test track near their world headquarters in Wolfsburg in northern Germany.
[via Engadget ]
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