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Photos: The car that drives itself

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By Tim Ferguson

Published: 13 April 2007 15:45 BST

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This may look like an everyday Volkswagen Passat but underneath the unremarkable exterior is cutting-edge technology that allows it to travel without any assistance from a human.

Driverless cars may seem like science fiction but they're already a reality. There's even a driverless car rally set to take place towards the end of this year.

Team-Lux from Hamburg showed off the car it intends to enter in the 2007 Grand Challenge at the Science Museum in London this week.

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