Artificial intelligence · 2005

DARPA Grand Challenge

Stanford's Stanley drives 212 km of desert with nobody aboard and wins.

In 2004 no vehicle finished the course. In 2005 five did, with Sebastian Thrun's Stanley winning in under seven hours using lidar, probabilistic mapping and machine-learned terrain classification. The 2007 Urban Challenge followed, and its alumni founded Google's self-driving project.

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