[Vwdiesel] VW wins driverless vehicle contest

Sandy Cameron scameron at compmore.net
Mon Oct 10 10:10:08 EDT 2005


The Pentagon-sponsored driverless vehicle contest has been won by a VW
Touareg fielded by Stanford U.

212 klm, 6 hours plus, across the Mojave with no external instructions.

If it's a diesel (not likely at this point) it could keep chugging along
even if its computer was melted by an EMP. It would be like a dad on
vacation, not knowing where it was going, and too macho to ask for directions. 

(Are we there yet?)

Any further development would require importing the diesel version, to
comply with the NATO unified fueling rules.

"Drivers no longer wanted"

Sandy



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