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Because I’m Very Into Robot Cars

by Josh Marshall
08.03.11 | 1:20 pm

New Chinese robot car makes 216 mile trip between Changsha and Wuhan in three hours and 20 minutes, with no human assistance.

An added thread of the story is that officials say the intellectual property behind the car was created entirely at China’s National University of Defense Technology.

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