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-Teams from Carnegie Melon, Stanford University, and Virginia Tech won the top three prizes in DARPA's Urban Challenge.  Each of these driverless cars completed a 60 mile mock urban course, navigating traffic and obeying California's traffic laws.  DARPA handed out prizes totaling $3,500,000.[http://news.google.ca/news?hl=en&q=urban%20challenge&oe=UTF-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wn] [http://www.darpa.mil/grandchallenge/]
+'''GM plans to manufacture driverless cars by 2018'''
+''This is not science fiction...the question is what does society want to do with it?''
+Larry Burns, VP of Research and Development for GM.[http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080107/ap_on_hi_te/gadget_show_driverless_cars]
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 ''It's not out of the question to imagine that someday soon you'll be able to start the car, punch in the appropriate settings, then swivel the front seats around and play cards and eat lunch as if you're riding on a train. All in perfect comfort and safety, all the way to that niece's place in Chicago.''
-''Of course, as a driving enthusiast, I think all that is something of a disgrace. But it's a necessary disgrace. It will help alleviate a lot of traffic congestion and prevent a lot of accidents, assuming the system doesn't break down for any reason. And it's an idea whose time has just about come.''
+''...If pressed to estimate just how far away that time is, I'd say a working system is ten years out, implementation maybe 20 years'' [http://money.cnn.com/2006/05/02/Autos/ford_cartech_fortune/index.htm?section=money_topstories#TOP Fortune Magazine, June 14, 2004]
-''If pressed to estimate just how far away that time is, I'd say a working system is ten years out, implementation maybe 20 years''
+'''Larry Burns, VP of Research and Development for General Motors'''
-Click [http://money.cnn.com/2006/05/02/Autos/ford_cartech_fortune/index.htm?section=money_topstories#TOP here] to link to the full June 14, 2004 article published by Fortune Magazine.
+''This is not science fiction...Now the question is what does society want to do with it? You're looking at these issues of congestion, safety, energy and emissions. Technically there should be no reason why we can't transfer to a totally different world."''[http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080107/ap_on_hi_te/gadget_show_driverless_cars]
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