Junior, the robot Volkswagen, passed its basic driver's test here Thursday.
Now comes the hard part: a race on mock city streets that will raise the bar for artificial intelligence in the 21st century.
A team of officials from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) visited a parking lot here next to Google headquarters to test Stanford University's autonomous passenger car, Junior, in what was its first big qualifying test for the upcoming Urban Challenge, DARPA's third Grand Challenge competition for driverless vehicles.

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