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Word: alves (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...VEHICLE. A robot-like, driverless device on which work is well in progress. The 15,000-lb. behemoth "sees" through a television camera linked to a built-in computer that matches images to data in its memory and decides which way the vehicle should go. The blue-and-white ALV successfully lumbered down a Denver test track earlier this summer. Though it negotiated the narrow, half-mile course at just 3 m.p.h., that was far faster than in any previous trial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Over Hill, over Dale... | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

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