Since then the town has been virtually empty, save the fire trucks and emergency vehicles shuttling supplies to more than 4,900 firefighters and crew members deployed to combat the Rim Fire, one of the largest wildfires in the state's history.
It will be the first implementation of self-driving vehicles in a public environment; the U.K. already has autonomous vehicles shuttling people from the business car park to Terminal 5 at Heathrow Airport, on a dedicated roadway.
For 90 minutes, vehicles shuttled between two planes parked side by side, exchanging 10 Russian agents for three US counterparts and one man, a Russian nuclear weapons researcher, who had always protested his innocence.
Montalban felt the same compulsion and laboured for hours amid rising waters to deliver families, property and pets to relatively dry land, where vehicles shuttled took them to shelters.
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(The fans were less familiar with the members of the news media standing on a flatbed truck in front of Pascoe's float, chanting "Who are you?" as the vehicle shuttled past).
The Marines, using pickup trucks or golf-cart-size all-terrain vehicles, shuttle back and forth daily from their camp to the 215th Corps headquarters at an adjoining Afghan base named Camp Shorabak, which is decorated with rosebushes and painted bright pink and green.
They tell me that there's no reason to call in advance, their vehicles shuttle continuously between the airport and locations in the Triangle area.
Meanwhile, large convoys of coalition trucks and armored vehicles shuttle between Q-West and Camp Swift, a base in Makhmour, a roughly 90-minute drive from the northern Iraqi town of Irbil.
And while the political campaigners trudge to places like Des Moines and Manchester, N.H., the automakers compete to fly journalists to exotic settings that will provide unusual backdrops for photography: BMW's Land Rover showed off its Discovery sport utility vehicle by shuttling writers and photographers to the Gobi Desert in Mongolia.
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