We could make them go around a track autonomously in 2007 [...] This we could actually do 20 years earlier. [1] A first culmination point was achieved in 1994

We could make them go around a track autonomously in 2007 [...] This we could actually do 20 years earlier. [1] A first culmination point was achieved in 1994, when their twin robot vehicles VaMP and VITA-2 drove more than 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) on a Paris multi-lane highway in standard heavy traffic at speeds up to 130 kilometres per hour (81 mph). They demonstrated autonomous driving in free lanes, convoy driving, automatic tracking of other vehicles, and lane changes left and right with autonomous passing of other cars. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eureka_Prometheus_Project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eureka_Prometheus_Project