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The Car of Tomorrow

Agata TuzimekJanuary 30, 2012

The automobile of the future does without a driver, but still manages to produce a safer ride than any human could. How does an autonomous car learn to see, to judge situations and to react intuitively in traffic?

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That is the big challenge that Christoph Stiller and Martin Lauer, researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, have taken on. They have created a 'cognitive car' they've named AnnieWAY, and entered it in a competition, the Grand Cooperative Driving Challenge in the Netherlands.