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  Google Shows Us Why We All Need Robot Cars IEEE Spectrum March 7, 2011

  We're pretty familiar with autonomous cars around here, and we've even been treated to a ride in one of Stanford's robots at their automotive innovation lab, which they launched in partnership with...

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  BrainDriver: A Mind-Controlled Car

  Imagine you could drive your car using only your thoughts. German researchers have just made that possible -- and they have the video to prove it. Following his recent interview on the Robots Podcast about autonomous vehicles, Raúl Rojas, an AI professor at the Freie Universität Berlin...

  IEEE Spectrum February 22, 2011
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  Smart Cars And The Need For Smarter Software

  There were a couple of more interesting articles the past few days involving software in cars. Early last week, Markus Waibul over on the Automaton blog and I both wrote (here and here) on the concept of "car platooning." I also noted in my post the Ford development effort involving a new crash...

  IEEE Spectrum February 3, 2011
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  "Skin Stretch" Feedback Takes the Wheel

  Your GPS navigator can already talk to you. A new device wants to let it touch you. A group at the University of Utah recently added direction-indicating knobs to a steering wheel that nudge the driver's fingers to tell them where to go. It seems the future car will employ many of the driver's...

  IEEE Spectrum October 16, 2010