Oct
29

Driverless vehicles complete 8,077 mile journey

Driverless electric vehicles complete an 8,077 mile journey (13,000k) across Europe starting in Italy and ending up in Shanghai China. The caravan of 4 vans drove through europe, russia, the gobi desert and finished the trip by ending up at the Shanghai World Expo. The vans averaged about 37 Mph and traveled about 4 hours per day. Little human intervention was needed only during a few scenarios such as toll booths. Challenges included replacing a battery in one vehicle and evading a traffic ticket from a baffled police officer that pulled over one of the vans because it violated a pedestrian traffic zone.
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