Without driver or map, vans go from Italy to China…

Without driver or map, vans go from Italy to China

Across Eastern Europe, Russia, Kazakhstan and the Gobi Desert— it certainly was a long way to go without getting lost. Four driverless electric vans successfully ended an 8,000-mile test drive from Italy to China — a modern-day version of Marco Polo’s journey around the world — with their arrival at the Shanghai Expo on Thursday.

Filed under: robotics — by adafruit, posted October 29, 2010 at 12:00 am


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