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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