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Back to Italy
A few days after the Expo's close, the
four orange vans were loaded on the
convoy support trucks and transported by Overland Network staff
back to Parma where they arrived on
26 November 2010 [Figure 9(b)],
VIAC's great experience had really
ended.

number plate and drivers without a
Chinese driving license to drive into
the country. Each vehicle and crew
had to spend more than a day and a
half in Yining to obtain the documents required [Figure 7(e)].
. . . and Then, Shanghai
It took 20 people, about 18 months of
work, more than 13,000 km, and three
months strenuous travel, but there
they were: the VisLab Intercontinental Autonomous Challenge had finally
reached its goal. The convoy arrived
in Shanghai on 26 October 2010 [Figure 8(a) and (b)].
Two days later, all the vehicles
were decorated with European Community flags and covered by Expo's
staff with orange information panels
in both English and Chinese. Two of
the vans paraded down the Expo's
central avenue [Figure 8(c)] and
another one was displayed outside
the European Pavilion [Figure 8(d)].
Before journalists and European
Community authorities, VisLab's
Director Prof. Broggi gave a

(a)

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(b)
Figure 9. (a) One of the trip souvenirs; the
banner written in Mandarin displayed at
the Expo's European Pavilion. (b) Vehicle's
return VisLab facilities in Parma.

triumphant speech celebrating this
new milestone in the history of vehicular robotics.

Annu. Meeting Transportation Research Board,
Washington, DC. TRB-Transportation Research Board, 2009.
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