The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) conducted its free agent races, the Grand Challenge and the Urban Challenge, in 2005 and 2007, but Volkswagen is still researching the technology. A accumulated accomplishment with Volkswagen's Electronics Research Laboratory (ERL), Stanford University's Dynamics Design Lab (SDDL), and Sun Microsystem's resulted in the free Audi TTS. The accumulation alive on the car is because a run up the 12.4-mile Pikes Peak Hill Climb advance in 2010 to authenticate the capabilities of its driverless technology.
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