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Brief history of self-driving cars - video post



year 1956: General Motors

a future vision of autonomous driving
year 1986: NavLab
first autonomous car in the world, revolutionary application
it was very slow and was fully packed with electronics needed for data processing
years 1984 - 1994: NavLab
from small and slow autonomous robots in closed environments towards first autonomous cars tested on real roads
control actions are based on multiple independent control modelues
years 1986 - 1996: NavLab
size minimization of the electronic devices - from vans to sedans
automatic control still unreliable and full of faults
years 1986 - 2003: VaMoRs Mercedes Van
9 years of research and development
20km autonomous drive with a max speed of 96km/h
year 1989: obstacle detection
year 1990: autonomous lanne change
yer 1992: ALVIN 
one of the first applications of artificial intelligence in autonomous driving
artificial neural networks learn from human driver how to control a car smaller distances
year 1997: NavLab 
autonomous car on a highway
year 2005: DARPA grand challenge 
autonomous car competition in the american desert
financially supported by DARPA
year 2007: DARPA urban challenge 
autonomous car competition in an urban environment
years 2009 - 2017: Waymo 
development of autonomous cars by Google
year 2010: Mercedes Benz 
from advanced driver-assistance systems to autonomous driving
year 2010: VisLab Intercontinental Autonomous Challenge
the longest ever trip undertaken with driverless vehicles, from Italy to China in 3 months
year 2014: Mercedes Benz
advanced driver-assistance systems in luxurions model S
year 2014: Tesla Autopilot
luxurious model S with advanced driver-assistance systems
year 2015: Waymo
Google test their own autonomous cars in practice with blind passenger
year 2015: Uber 
Uber starts to develop their own driverless technology
year 2017: Volvo DriveMe
100 self-driving cars on the streets of Gothenburg in Sweden, with real customers in the driving seat.
year 2017: drive.ai 
cars use deep learning to turn past experience into better decisions
year 2018: Audi 
a new era of autonomy with the latest version of its A8 flagship sedan, promising an advanced suite that will steer the future of self-driving cars
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