While Google’s self-driving cars rely on 3D maps to situate itself in its environment, ALVINN’s use of a neural network meant the vehicle was “narrowly intelligent” and make decisions ...

It’s what unlocked the next generation of self-driving cars, and even in today’s A.I.-based systems, one can find the hints of ALVINN. Navlab 2 Cross Country Navigation 1992.

The approach ALVINN took was using a neural network to drive the car, which was absolutely novel for the time and is quickly becoming an increasingly popular approach with self-driving car efforts.” ...

Meet ALVINN, the self-driving car from 1989 - The Verge ... In the report, points on accidents caused by automatic driving cars are also told, ...

Self-driving cars have captured the public's imagination for decades. ... In 1989, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University motored around campus using ALVINN, ...

The quest for self-driving cars puts deep neural networks on the fast track, a technology that teaches computers to accurately recognize objects from the real world. Self-driving car tech lets ...

The Cruise accident might seem like an argument against self-driving cars, but human drivers have terrible accidents, too. The question is not whether autonomous vehicles are perfectly safe, but ...

In 1989, the Berlin Wall began to fall, the World Wide Web made its debut, Madonna's "Like a Prayer" topped the charts, and in Pittsburgh, a retrofitted Army ambulance called ALVINN was driving ...