Interesting project.

A team of Italian engineers overnight launched what has been billed as the longest-ever test drive of driverless vehicles: a 13,000-kilometre, three-month road trip from Italy to China, not in search of silk, but to test the limits of future automotive technology.

Weblinks:
http://viac.vislab.it/?page_id=11
http://vislab.it/Projects/view/32

Let's see how they manage the crossing into China