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Road warriors: robots get smarter, but who will buy them?(Unmanned Technology)
National Defense, March, 2008 by Jean, Grace V.
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The concept of a car driving itself through city sweets is no longer relegated to the realm of science fiction.
Automobiles competing in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Urban Challenge in November proved themselves capable of navigating through a closed course in California without any humans sitting behind the wheel or remotely controlling the vehicles. Loaded with sensors and computing technologies, the cars, sports utility vehicles and trucks dodged obstacles, pulled into parking spots and merged into moving traffic with calculated precision.
While the ...
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