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Ernst Dickmanns' autonomous cars on 1980s public roads

Kaspars Foigts · Documentary · 3 min · 2016 · YouTube title: Dickmann's autonomous cars, 1980s
Why it's here

HN commenters cite it as proof that autonomous driving was demonstrated decades before the current boom.

What it covers

A three-minute clip about Ernst Dickmanns' VaMoR and VaMP projects, in which fully autonomous vehicles drove thousands of miles on public roads in the 1980s. It is a brief look at early German self-driving research.