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2005 CE

Autonomous vehicles complete the Grand Challenge

Artificial intelligence · Robotics

Several teams completed the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge course, won by Stanford’s Stanley, after none finished in 2004. The advance brought together perception, planning and control, without yet demonstrating general driving in everyday traffic.

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