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DARPA jump-started the industry with their three autonomous vehicle competitions a decade ago. Most of the entrants were university mechanical engineering depar
by peter303 11y ago
DARPA jump-started the industry with their three autonomous vehicle competitions a decade ago. Most of the entrants were university mechanical engineering departments. No one came close to completing the first challenge. But they got pretty good by the third one. Google and the auto indutry continued funding thereafter.
- martincmartin 11y agoThe DARPA grand challenge was certainly a pivotal event, but I wouldn't say it jump-started the industry. The two biggest teams in the second race, from CMU and Stanford, were both spinoffs of the Field Robotics Center at CMU, which had been doing this for a long time: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tjochem/nhaa/Journal.html http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tjochem/nhaa/Journal.html http://www.pbs.org/saf/transcripts/transcript705.htm http://www.pbs.org/saf/transcripts/transcript705.htm Disclosure: I was a grad student at CMU at the time, in the building, and saw a lot of this up close.