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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 Total: 4 news articles First News Article: Technology News Daily, 30/06/2008 23:46 |