Can A Laser Scanner Drive A Car By Itself?

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Can a computer steer a car through a city without a driver's help? The 'Spirit of Berlin', a vehicle developed jointly by researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems IAIS in Sankt Augustin and their colleagues at the Freie Universität Berlin, proves that it is possible. The vehicle, which will be on display at this year's Hannover Messe, made it to the semi-finals of the 'DARPA Urban Challenge' competition* entirely alone -without a driver or a remote control.

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