Would you ride in a robotic vehicle that drives itself? If you can believe it, there’s a whole contest where a bunch of driverless cars will try to beat each other to the finish line in a 200 mile race. The race, called the Grand Challengeis sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and many teams are working on building robot cars to compete in the event. The race will be October 8, and the track is located in the Mojave Desert — can you imagine a fleet of 20 robot vehicles racing each other across the desert?

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