22 Feb autonomous land vehicle (ALV)

A wheeled (or possibly levitation) vehicle that gets around without a human (or other sentient being) driver. We’ve been using these in planetary research on Mars for awhile – less traffic to worry about than the Santa Monica Expressway. Google cars are pushing the envelope.

Posts with reference to autonomous land vehicle technology: Pattern Recognition in Two Dimensions     Understanding what we See

A bit from Gizmodo on the history of ALVs in America