[Tyler]

In the 1980s, the Self-Driving Van Was Born
9 November 2016, 12:13 am

       

Carnegie Mellon University’s NavLab, vintage 1986, was one of the first cars ever that was designed to be controlled by a computer. It featured an early version of lidar functioning as the vehicle’s eyes—the same way most autonomous and semi-autonomous cars see their environment today.

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Source: AI in the News

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