Self-Driving Car Completes Cross-Country Trip in 9 Days
An autonomous car created by Delphi Automotive completed a 3,400-mile trip across the country this week, arriving in New York City nine days after its departure from San Francisco. The team used a modified Audi Q4 SUV (nicknamed “Roadrunner”) equipped with cameras, laser rangefinders and other high-tech goodies that let the car watch the road. After acquiring the necessary autonomous car licenses and alerting states they’d be coming through, the team drove, or rather rode along, through California, Texas, Mississippi and a dozen other states.