Jouni, In Italy they made this at a fraction of the price. Note that they mostly run on electric power some of which come from the pv panel on the roof.
short: http://goo.gl/3cdfe long: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/news/7903932/Self-driving-robot-vans-start-epic-trip-from-Italy-to-China.html mic 2011/10/18 Jouni Valkonen <jounivalko...@gmail.com>: > Nice new videos about how advanced automation is already. Here > Google's car is trying avoid pedestrians and deers in the streets of > California and elsewhere. There is lots of new material and details > how these automated miracles are doing just fine without human's > intervening. Implications are tremendous, because this means that it > does take long, when we can fully automate at least buses, tramcars > and taxicabs. Lots of people can then do something more productive > than driving same bus line over and over again in the cities. > > The Evolution of Self-Driving Vehicles (1/3) > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7ub5Doyapk > > How Google's Self-Driving Car Works (2/3) > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXylqtEQ0tk > > Google's Self-Driving Golf Carts (3/3) > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOWhu_aa9kM > > Referring Spectrum article is here: > > How Google's Self-Driving Car Works > http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/artificial-intelligence/how-google-self-driving-car-works > > > –Jouni > >
