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Slideshow: This Humvee Is Car and Driver

Carnegie Mellon University's Red Team unveils a fully autonomous robot Humvee designed to race across a desert with no human intervention. Lore Sjöberg reports from San Francisco.
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William "Red" Whittaker is Red Team's leader and namesake.Courtesy of Red Team Racing

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Red Team is made up of robotics engineers, student volunteers and corporate sponsors.

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Sandstorm's computational power is supplied by Intel Itanium and Xeon processors.

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Sandstorm's sensors include stereo vision, a laser range finder and 180-degree radar.

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Sandstorm is equipped with steering, shifting, acceleration and combined throttle-brake actuators.

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Sandstorm is a modified 998 HMMWV.

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