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Let the Robot Drive: The Autonomous Car of the Future Is Here

January 24, 2012 /

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The object, vaguely pink, sits on the shoulder of the freeway, slowly shimmering into view. Is it roadkill? A weird kind of sagebrush? No, wait, it’s … a puffy chunk of foam insulation! "The laser almost certainly got returns off of it," says Chris Urmson, sitting behind the wheel of the Prius he is not driving. A note is made (FOD: foreign object or debris, lane 1) as we drive past, to help our computerized car understand the curious flotsam it has just seen.

By Tom Vanderbilt

Full Story: http://www.wired.com/magazine/2012/01/ff_autonomouscars/all/1

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