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Abdulazeez died in police gunfire.
LONDON, April 24 (Xinhua) -- Driverless cars will run on the 100-km road between London and Oxford in about two years, the government-run atomic energy agency UKAEA announced Monday.
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A UKAEA spokesman said in a press release: "These projects will play a key role in putting the first driverless cars on public roads in the coming years. Most notable is the DRIVEN consortium led by award-winning driverless car developers Oxbotica."
DRIVEN has won 10.25 million U.S. dollars in funding from the government's Center for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles investment.
The release said: "This will go towards developing and operating a fleet of vehicles to operate on public roads, with complete autonomy, within the next two and half years."
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The latest funding comes as strong support builds for the whole robotics and artificial intelligence community.
Cutting edge artificial intelligence and robotics systems that will operate in extreme and hazardous environments will benefit from a 350 million U.S. dollars Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund announced earlier this year by the government.
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