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8,000-Mile 'Driver-less' Test Drive Underway

Posted July 21, 2010 11:19 AM

From msnbc.com: Innovation:

It's a modern-day version of Marco Polo's journey halfway around the world — but is anyone at the controls? A team of Italian engineers on Tuesday launched what has been billed as the longest-ever test drive of driverless vehicles: an 8,000-mile, three-month road trip from Italy to China, not in search of silk, but to test the limits of future automotive technology.

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07/21/2010 12:09 PM

Oh, okay. When I saw that line about 'is anyone at the controls?', I thought it was another comment about the Obama Administration.

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07/21/2010 12:33 PM

There aren't any controls anymore. The previous administration lost 'em while goofing around somewhere in a Middle-East desert.

Still, it'll be cool if they pull off this (mostly?) driver-less trek. One more step toward the autopilot car of the future, eh? Although I'd be delighted if in the interim if we could just make a vehicle that can determine when a driver falls asleep or is DUI or ill and then pull itself safely off the road & park.

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07/22/2010 10:03 AM

I'd love to see the test on the first day it snows in a major city anywhere!

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