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Those from Google managed to convince the authorities of some states in the USA to legalize self-driving cars, but the efforts of the Americans are not unique, Oxford University researchers managed to do something similar, but with the help of an iPad tablet. If you watch the video clip above, you will notice how the entire system works, the iPad being the one that controls the car when the driver takes his hands off the wheel. The entire system works with the help of cameras and lasers, the information collected by them being stored and analyzed by the iPad tablet which, with the help of an application, generates a route that the car follows on its own, if the driver allows it.
The whole system is complex and requires a route to be covered before the iPad application can memorize it and cross it by itself, but the technology will arrive in the hands of consumers in a few years. At the moment the whole system, apart from the iPad tablet, costs £5000, but Oxford University researchers claim that the final price could reach only £100 if the system is ever launched on the market.
