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And more than a century after the horseless carriage, now comes the driverless car. From CBS News world headquarters in New York, this is the CBS Evening News. As the auto industry struggles to find drivers for its cars, engineers may have come up with the solution… a car that doesn’t need a driver. John Blackstone takes us for a spin.

 

The car, racing in circles kicking up dust, has a surprise. Nobody is driving. “Car is driving by itself.” It has a name “Shelly.” But it doesn’t have a driver. But when the Stanford University researchers offered me a bumpy spin in the driverless car, they didn't let me go alone. “So why are you behind the wheel?” “Um….just for safety reason.” Turns out Shelley's computers are still learning to drive. By this fall, they want the car to do something like this, race to the top of Colorado's Pikes Peak with nobody at the wheel. The Audi TTS has been given a GPS system accurate within an inch. Researchers at Stanford have been working on driverless cars for years now.

 

In 2005, they took me for a ride in a car named “Stanley.” Stanley's driving style was cautious. But Shelley is all about speed. In a test at the Bonneville Salt Flats, it clocked 130 miles an hour. While it may seem pretty risky to hand controls of a speeding car to a computer, much of what this is about is removing risk for drivers. So the technology that's meant to help this car race up Pikes Peak without going off a cliff may one day keep regular drivers from going off the road. John Blackstone, CBS News, San Hose, California. And finally a car that actually knows the way to San Hose. That’s the CBS Evening News for tonight. I’m Katie Couric. Thanks for watching. I’ll see you on Monday. Good night.

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