Bringing a bit of much needed good news to the Volkswagen cause, a team from the University of Nevada was able to modify a 2010 Volkswagen Passat wagon (nicknamed 'Autonomous'), to be able to complete the longest-ever driverless journey in Mexico by traveling more than 1,500 miles from the border crossing at Nogales to Mexico City. Of course, the Passat was heavily modified with an array of sensors, cameras, radar, and GPS. Before the journey even started, the team had to create a highly detailed digital map of the route that largely ran along Mexico's Federal Highway 15. The uneventful drive covered between 250 and 300 miles everyday, with a person in the passenger seat and 2 in a car following behind for additional support. What do you think about the future of self-driving cars? Do you want to have one, or is the act of driving something you'd want to keep? Tell us in the comment section below.
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