Technology
Out of control: Driving in a platoon of hands-free cars
Platooning cars follow one another on the road without any need for drivers to steer. Our reporter got behind the wheel 鈥� and quickly grew to enjoy it
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Technology
Driverless cars ready to hit our roads
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Technology
Robot car passenger: On the road to China, no driver
Opinion
Technology
DARPA: Inventing this side of the impossible
Books & Arts
Technology
Air travellers get a robot chauffeur
News
Today on New Scientist: 20 August 2009
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Weapons technology: Top 10 articles from 2008
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Technology
Fifty years of DARPA: Hits, misses and ones to watch
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Technology
Editorial: Time to let robots into the driving seat?
Opinion
Life
Road-bots prepare to take the wheel
Robotic vehicles will soon be able to better humans in their on-road ability, but psychological and legal issues remain to be solved
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Life
Perspectives: Are we becoming gods?
Opinion
Driverless cars line up for race to Vegas
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Plundering the final frontier: If space has a future, it is much more likely to be driven by commercial expolitation than scientific exploration
Features
High hopes for faster transit – City planners are desperate to unclog congested roads by luring us out of our cars and on to public transport. Enter the ‘personal train’ that could be running in Chicago by the year 2000
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