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* [[Life Imitates Art]] on this. [[wikipedia:Darpa grand challenge|Research and experiments have been going on]] for [[wikipedia:VaMP|quite some time.]]
* [http://www.templetons.com/brad/robocars/ This site] has a good rundown.
* Automated Automobiles are a common theme of real-life [[Zeerust]]. According to [http://arquivo.pt/wayback/20141202081148/http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/03/24/what-will-life-be-like-in-the-year-2008/ this 1968 article about how life was supposed to be like in 2008]:
{{quote|IT'S 8 a.m., Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2008, and you are headed for a business appointment 300 miles away. You slide into your [[Cool Car|sleek, two-passenger air-cushion car]], press a [[Billions of Buttons|sequence of buttons]] and the national traffic computer [[Big Brother|notes your destination]], figures out the current traffic situation and signals your car to slide out of the garage. Hands free, you sit back and begin to read the morning paper—which is flashed on a flat TV screen over the car’s dashboard. Tapping a button changes the page.
The car accelerates to 150 mph in the city's suburbs, then hits 250 mph in less built-up areas, gliding over the smooth plastic road. You whizz past a string of cities, many of them [[Domed Hometown|covered by the new domes]] that keep them evenly climatized year round. Traffic is heavy, typically, but there's [[What Could Possibly Go Wrong?|no need to worry]]. The [[Master Computer|traffic computer]], which feeds and receives signals to and from all cars in transit between cities, keeps vehicles at least 50 yds. apart. There [[Finagle's Law|hasn’t been an accident since the system was inaugurated]]. }}
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