By Leftlane Staff
Friday, Nov 18th, 2005 @ 1:22 pm

Stanford University’s race-winning automated Volkswagen Touareg has got the attention of some very important organizations. Project leader Sebastian Thrun’s telephone has been ringing regularly ever the since the SUV, known as “Stanley,” won the competition. Proposals have been coming from defense contractors, entrepreneurs and others with ideas of how to employ autonomous navigation. Some of that interest is from the military. After all, DARPA, the Pentagon’s research and development arm, had sponsored the race to foster innovation in autonomous ground vehicles; the armed forces are facing a mandate to make a third of their vehicles self-driving within the next 10 years. But second-place team leader William Whittaker said the interest in autonomous vehicles is much broader than that, including environmental remediation, mining and agricultural machinery.

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