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Driveless Car completes a cross country trip.

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You may have heard of self driving automobiles but the delphi model has officially been announced to travel a distance of 3,500 mile from San Francisco to New York setting a record of the first self-driven car to travel that distance in North America. Although, the longest trip ever made by a driverless car was an 8,000-mile journey from Europe to Shanghai in 2010 when a self-driving van from Italian company VisLab made the three-month trek. The Delphi’s self-driving car, which is modeled after a 2014 Audi SQ5 and debuted at CES 2015, made it's mark. It features six long-range radars, four short-range radars, three vision-based cameras, six lidars, a localization system, intelligent software algorithms and a full suite of Advanced Drive Assistance Systems. The car can manage four-way stops, merge onto highways, and steer around unexpected presences in the roadway, such as a bicyclist. And it seemed to do all this fine along its record-breaking trip, as there we...