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GM’S newest vehicle: Self-driving rover for moon

CAPE CANAVERAL, FLA.» General Motors is teaming up with Lockheed Martin to produce the ultimate off-road, self-driving, electric vehicles — for the moon. The project announced May 26 is still in the early stages and has yet to score any NASA money. But the goal is to design light, yet rugged, vehicles that will travel farther and faster than the lunar rovers that carried NASA’S Apollo astronauts in the early 1970s, the companies said. The rovers used by the Apollo 15, 16 and 17 moonwalkers ventured no more than 4½ miles from their landers. GM also helped design those vehicles.