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Re:Google didn’t lead the self-driving vehicle revolution, J... by bsbechtel on Monday June 22, 2015 @09:30AM (#9758124)
To be fair, they also started working on the problem before Google even existed, with technology more primitive than Google's first servers.
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Re:Google didn’t lead the self-driving vehicle revolution, J... by bryanlarsen on Monday June 22, 2015 @09:36AM (#9758160)
Yes, I know of professors who were doing field trials of self-driving tractors 30 years ago, and I'm sure they weren't the first.
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Re:Google didn’t lead the self-driving vehicle revolution, J... by acadien on Monday June 22, 2015 @09:42AM (#9758214)
The mining industry has dreamed of self driving vehicles to replace humans in dangerous work conditions for ages.
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Re:Google didn’t lead the self-driving vehicle revolution, J... by cake on Monday June 22, 2015 @09:58AM (#9758319)
Nothing new here : http://mining.sandvik.com/en/products/equipment/mine-automat...
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