Continental, a German auto supplier developing car automation technology, has just received a license to operate its "highly automated vehicle" from the state of Nevada. The company is the first to join Google, which has been working on a fully-automated vehicle in the state — in August, the company announced that it had logged over 300,000 miles on the road with its autonomous Toyota Prius and Lexus RX hybrid vehicles. But unlike Google's driverless car, Continental's modified Volkswagen Passat is designed to always have a human operator behind the wheel to monitor the system. "Designed as a driver assist system, the automated vehicle can accomodate multiple driving scenarios," the company writes in a press release.
Continental has...
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