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human driver who, in addition to an ordinary driver’s li-
cense, has to get certification of ability to operate a robot.
Google-Waymo cars use video cameras, Google Street
View, LIDAR sensors, and geolocation radars for safe driv-
ing in traffic. The Toyota Prius, Lexus RX450h, Audi TT, and
Mercedes-Benz have now already received permission for
testing, but for the time being your chances to get into a
Google-Waymo car’s passenger seat are limited to Ann
Arbor.
Ride a rocket to the Universe in the desert of
New Mexico www.spacex.com
Take a ride around Ann Arbor, Michigan in
a self-driving car www.visitannarbor.org and
https://mcity.umich.edu/our-work/mcity-test-facility /
In July of 2015 the University of Michigan put into op-
eration an entire city called Mcity for testing self-driving
motorized transport. And in Nevada it’s been officially per-
mitted since 2012 to travel on the highways in Google cars,
which incidentally have been farmed out to a company
called Waymo; see https://waymo.com/. True, for the time
being, the law doesn’t permit dispensing altogether with a
”You’ll have a spaceport as soon as you build a space-
ship,” declared New Mexico governor Bill Richardson in
2004. “So build a spaceport, and then I’ll build you a
spaceship,” retorted entrepreneur and billionaire Richard
Branson. Seven years later, America, the first commercial
tourism spaceport in the world, had been built in the small
town of Truth or Consequences, which is in the middle of
the desert with the cheerful name Jornada del Muerto
(Dead Man’s Journey). According to the plans of Virgin
Galactic, suborbital flights were to have become common-
place, but for now successful test launches can be counted
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