VisLab Sponsors Milan-to-Shanghai Driverless Trek

Posted by timothy on Saturday April 10, 2010 @05:51PM from the with-a-bit-of-human-assistance dept.

incuso writes "VisLab announced the most advanced challenge so far ever organized for autonomous vehicles. Two driverless electric cars will perform a trip from Italy to China to demonstrate the feasibility of autonomous driving in real traffic conditions. Each vehicle will be equipped with five laser scanners, seven cameras, GPS, inertial measurement unit, three Linux PCs, and an x-by-wire driving system. The mission will start on July 10 in Milan, Italy, and will reach Shanghai, China, on October 10 (10/10/10) on a 13,000 km route though Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Romania, Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, and finally China."

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Autonomous? by yoldapirate · 2010-04-10 18:41 · Score: -1, Troll

How autonomous can it be if you need to manually refill the tank? Or maybe they discovered some perpetual machine to power the cars!
Re:For readers in other parts of the world by Anonymous Coward · 2010-04-11 03:14 · Score: -1, Troll

Americans are extremely insular. It wouldn't be surprising at all.