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+[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DZL0i51tRs|Viral Video Shows San Francisco Police Pull Over Driverless Car]]
+[[https://www.engineering.com/DesignSoftware/DesignSoftwareArticles/ArticleID/20961/Siemens-Announces-SCAPTOR-for-Advanced-Driver-Assistance-Systems-ADAS.aspx?utm_source=engineering.com&utm_campaign=f3fcc261a8-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_7_10_2018_8_49_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_622b2cc90f-f3fcc261a8-322300801|Siemens Announces SCAPTOR for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS)]]
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+SelfDrivingVWGolf
+From : http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=393401&in_page_id=1770
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+The self-driving Golf that would give Herbie a run for its money
+It has proved one of the most endearing of cinematic legends - a loveable car with a mind of its own that can drive itself.
+And for 40 years Herbie - or the 'Love Bug' - as the Volkswagen Beetle was dubbed in its first movie outing - has enthralled millions of families in a series of Hollywood sequels.
+But now German car giant Volkswagen has turned fiction into reality by unveiling a fully automatic car which really can drive itself - and at speeds of up to 150mph.
+It can weave with tyres screeching around tricky bends and chicanes, and through tightly coned off tracks - without any help or intervention from a human.
+The remarkable car is the VW Golf GTi '53 plus 1' codenamed after the number '53' which Herbie carried when racing in his big screen adventures.
+The GTi has electronic 'eyes' that use radar and laser sensors in the grille to 'read' the road and send the details back to its computer brain. A sat-nav system tracks its exact position with pin-point precision to within an inch.
+The car can then work out the twists and turns it has to negotiate - before setting off at break-neck speed through a laid out course on a test track.
+On a race circuit, it drove itself faster and more precisely than the VW engineers could manage - and can accelerate independently up to its top speed of 150mph.
+To prove it is no trick, guests were invited to design for themselves a variety of different courses - using road cones - and then watch the car fly around them on its own at a test track near their world headquarters in Wolfsburg in northern Germany.
+Prototype
+The astonishing prototype was developed initially to help Volkswagen engineers test their vehicles.
+But in an age when rapidly advancing technology and the Big Brother State is increasingly taking responsibility away from the driver - with the onward march of electronic speed limiters, collision avoidance systems, cruise control, satellite navigation, and pay-as-you-drive road tolling - the self-driving robot car is not such a distant prospect.
+And many of the elements which make up its engine will be making their way into showroom cars within just a few years - just as sat-nav, collision avoidance sensors and anti-lock brakes have done in recent years.
+A Volkswagen spokesman said: 'It really is a self-driving Golf. It steers, brakes and accelerates. And it races through handling courses independently. It can accomplish this at full performance and at the limits of its capabilities.'
+'We called it '53' because it is reminiscent of the cinematic Volkswagen bug Herbie, which made history as the first self-driving Volkswagen. This time we've done it for real.'
+'The computer calculates where and at what speed the GTi has clearance between the cones. The GPS satellite enables navigation to within less than an inch.'