Check out this event I learned about & team Mojavaton

Team Mojavaton was Western Colorado's competitors in the 2005 and 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge. The DARPA Grand Challenge is a race for unmanned, autonomous vehicles. Each car had a computer system, a variety of sensors which allow the vehicles to control themselves without human interaction which means no remote or human intervention. No person went in the car people only watched. The DARPA Challenge is a research project of Arlington, Virginia for a mandate by the year 2015 one third of military vehicles be autonomous compatable in order to save soldiers' lives.