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Autonomous Touareg on display in Silicon Valley
04/07/2008 09:06. Wolfsburg, Germany – “Stanleyâ€, the first autonomous automobile to master the “Grand Challenge†for robot cars, is now on display at the Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, California. The prototype will be on display there from June 20 to July 18, 2008. It was here in the Silicon Valley region near San Francisco that the Stanley project was originally born.

The driverless Touareg set out on the 212-kilometre race through the Mojave Desert amidst a field of 22 other competitors on October 8, 2005. Stanley travelled through the desert all on its own – no driver, no external intervention. It was the first to cross the finishing line after six hours, 53 minutes and 58 seconds. Never before had a motor vehicle managed anything close to such a distance... // CanadianDriver

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First News Article: Technology News Daily, 30/06/2008 23:46


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