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.