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News outlets this weekend reported on Google's other expansion, into the robotic car business.
Its robotic car project, which kicked off in 2009, is one of the leaders in the field.
Last year BMW sent a robotic car at motorway speeds from Munich, the German carmaker's hometown, to Nuremberg, about 170km to the north.
Technology companies including Apple, Uber and Google are all developing significant teams that believe they can beat Detroit in the race to a fully robotic car.
In 2005, the Pentagon paid a $2 million award to the team whose robotic car won a 132-mile race in the Nevada desert, a feat in the design of driverless vehicles.
In 2005 Dr. Thrun led a team of Stanford students and professors in building a robotic car that won a Pentagon-sponsored challenge by driving 132 miles over unpaved roads in a California desert.
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