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it may be a first-of-its-kind cross-country road trip three people will be riding in this modified Audi but for a majority of the time no one will actually be driving it's the longest coast-to-coast journey of an automated car from San Francisco to New York this car will make the 3500 mild trip using delphi self-driving technology which includes roughly 20 sensing systems around the periphery there is forward vision there's radar there's also lidar the car has high accuracy GPS and then also vehicle the vehicle and vehicle to infrastructure communications Delphi is putting its autonomous driving system to this long-distance test to collect more data about highways from on-ramp to off-ramp the technology will control the car with an operator behind the wheel in case of emergency so we're using radar envision systems and those rely on the infrastructure as well as other vehicles around them for the car to make decisions but they won't be hands-free one hundred percent of the time in urban environments operators will take over and drive only five places in the united states including california washington DC and nevada have specific regulations for autonomous driving for the rest of the states that are driving through we just have to follow the laws of those states so in some cases we'll have to keep a hand on the wheel or just abide by the local law in those areas other companies have performed similar stunts Aldys self-driving car made the trek from Silicon Valley to Las Vegas for the consumer electronics show in january Delphi hopes the road ahead includes automakers putting its technology into future cars in Mountain View I'm Carter Tsuboi cnet.com for CBS News