Volkswagen begins testing automated cars in Hamburg

Volkswagen has commenced testing automated vehicles in Hamburg, Germany. The tests, being carried out by Volkswagen Group Research, will see five e-Golfs take to a three kilometer section of road in the major port city.

Volkswagen said that computing power"equivalent to some 15 laptops" has been installed in the e-Golf's trunk. "The tests center on technical possibilities as well as urban infrastructure requirements," Axel Heinrich, who is head of Volkswagen Group Research, said in a statement Wednesday.

and hackers will be watching...I dont trust any of these ...until we find a bullet proof computer system then we're at risk...makes me wonder about planes too...I wonder if hackers have just been 'nice' by stealing our money and crashing our systems for laughs!...scary!

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