DARPA Grand Challenge - 2005 Driverless Car Competition

With all the talk about Google's self driving vehicles and their moonshot venture into robotics, I thought it was timely to take this out of the archives. The video covers the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge, the first successful completion of the government sponsored event aimed at the advancement of autonomous vehicle technology. It's amazing to think that less than a decade ago only a handful of vehicles could complete this course. Today, there is legislation to legalize such cars for street use.
Looking back, this event will likely be remember as a milestone moment in automotive history. I'm happy to have been there to cover it, and glad to share it everyone.

[@tarpandas1]

Stanley is the name we are stuck with today, as we get it's name in every AI book. The fact is that I didn't know it was sponsored by Red Bull. I mean c'mon, if this race was today, you would have known it would win just by looking at it's sponsorship. Seriously though, all jokes aside, It's lovely to a pioneer at something, always.

[@kozcs2]

weird to watch this now

[@b3ndotch]

also just looked it up right now… you think FSD 9.1 would master the course?

[@darkhorse0102]

This is how the self-driving car was born.

[@rj6110]

cool, i remember my dad showed me this as a kid! my favorite was terramax

[@TheReal_Mrlunk]

Same

[@kosquo4328]

Stanley does not understand the concept of fear

[@CarFreeSegnitz]

"...hit the GPS waypoints with human-like precision..." we're doomed if all they can do is human-like precision. I want super-human precision at 250 mph.

[@aydencz1239]

Read the title next time

[@Lumakid100]

Why NOVA didn’t show Team ENSCO’s Dexter is beyond me. Dexter was easily on pace to finish.

[@deeplearningpartnership]

Cool.

[@cumhugs]

the announcer's mannerisms are funny

[@amg4455]

interesting video

[@zeda2237]

Link to full documentary (it’s definitely worth a watch) kzbin.info/www/bejne/rHS1o4uHh9t2las

[@snipzmattio5887]

They use linux btw

[@heedfulnewt6625]

Team Ensco won

[@Ninjachicken20]

Anyone know the name of the acoustic guitar piece?

[@Nate-bd8fg]

No

[@JDmadethis]

Tesla would destroy this now… we have come so far

[@djkalisouthmusic]

2024 autonomous is pretty bad

[@msowefy]

this should be used immediately to fight isis