Open-source auto company Local Motors is constantly redefining itself. The company began with the Rally Fighter, whose designs were crowdsourced from the Local Motors community. The firm then jumped into the 3D printing industry, first 3D printing the Strati concept vehicle and then embarking on a complete line of 3D-printed road-ready cars, set to hit highways in 2017. At the grand opening of the company's new facility in National Harbor, MD, Local Motors redefined itself once again by unveiling "Olli", the first self-driving vehicle powered by IBM Watson. Watson will allow the auto to take advantage of a number of advanced cognitive computing capabilities, including the ability to answer questions from the vehicle's passengers.

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Local Motors, the company behind the first 3-D printed car, just debuted its first self-driving vehicle. The shuttle-like vehicle, called Olli, can fit up to 12 passengers and is also the first autonomous vehicle to use Watson -- IBM's machine-learning platform -- to communicate with passengers. That means Olli can respond to voice commands, like "Hey, Olli, please take me downtown," and also answers questions using IBM's speech-to-text, natural-language classifier, entity extraction and text-to-speech technology. The Watson-powered shuttle will even be able to recommend destinations to its passengers. And so begins the transition from human bus drivers to robot bus drivers.

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What do you get when you cross self-driving artificial intelligence, 3-D printing, and public transportation? Local Motors, a manufacturer known for its focus on open-source vehicle designs, unveiled Olli on Thursday at its new facility in National Harbor, Md., a development just outside Washington D.C. To test Olli, Local Motors plans to offer free rides to the public around the development in what is believed to be the first public trial of a completely self-driving vehicle in the United States, reported The Washington Post. In February, the Netherlands launched a fleet of WEpod driverless buses, which can carry six passengers, on the campus of Wageningen University in a central Dutch agricultural town. Miami-Dade County has bought two Olli shuttles, and Las Vegas has bought one.