Torcs Robotics from Blacksburg in Virginia received on May 18th as 54th entity a permit for testing autonomous vehicles on all public roads in California.

The company was founder in 2005 by Virginia Tech students and participated in 2007at the DARPA Urban Challenge for autonomous cars. Fifty percent of its business was done on military contracts.

Torc Robotics Twitter account has been diligent in reporting from all the small and big challenges that autonomous cars face and illustrated that with a series of videos.

This article has also been published in German.