Self-driving car (VaMoRs, DARPA Grand Challenge, Waymo)
Coche autónomo (VaMoRs, DARPA Grand Challenge, Waymo)
- Date
- 1986-2018 · confidence medium
- Place
- Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany (Dickmanns, 1986); Stanford (Stanley, 2005); Waymo, Phoenix, Arizona (commercial service, 2018)
- Credited to
- Ernst Dickmanns (VaMoRs, 1986-1995); Sebastian Thrun and Stanford (Stanley, 2005); Google/Waymo (2009-2018)
- People
- 👤 Ernst Dickmanns1936–👤 Sebastian Thrun1967–
- Field
- Movement
What it is
Vehicles that sense their surroundings with cameras, lidar and radar and drive without human intervention. Waymo has offered commercial driverless robotaxis in several US cities since 2018-2020.
What it led to
- Robotaxis and the possible transformation of urban transport and driving jobs
- Massive investment in computer vision and deep learning
- Debates over the legal and ethical responsibility of algorithms
Built on
- Kalman filter1960
- Lidar1961
- Electronic ABS and production airbag1978-1981
- Global Positioning System (GPS)1978-1995
- Convolutional neural networks (LeNet)1989-1998
- CMOS active-pixel sensor and camera phone1993-2000
- Pre-Columbian settlements of La Mosquitia (LiDAR)2012-2015
- AlexNet and the deep learning revolution2012
- Modern lithium-ion electric car (Nissan Leaf, Tesla Model S)2010-2012
Made possible
- robotaxi
- autonomous trucks
- driver assistance systems (ADAS)