Topic: Robotics
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Tesla ships Full Self-Driving Beta to owners
Unfinished autonomy software goes to selected customers on public roads.
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Google reveals its self-driving car project
Google discloses a fleet that has already driven over 140,000 miles on public roads.
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No car finishes the DARPA Grand Challenge
The best entrant covers 7.4 of 142 desert miles before failing.
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Stanley wins the DARPA Grand Challenge
Stanford’s vehicle completes 132 desert miles using learned perception rather than hand-coded rules.
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Six cars finish the DARPA Urban Challenge
Vehicles negotiate traffic, merging and right-of-way on a mock city course.
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How Self-Driving Actually Works: SAE Levels 0–5 and the State of Play
The SAE levels are the only precise vocabulary for autonomous driving, and almost every consumer claim abuses them. Here is the framework…
