[ChuckNorris89]

>Mercedes FSD prototype, 10 years ago:

Mercedes FSD prototype 1986 to 1994 via the 400 Million Euro EU funded Prometheus project https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I39sxwYKlEE

It's funny that German, and Italian researchers and car makers had the early lead on self driving tech and then lost it by shelving the tech. Oof.

Which reinforces my earlier point I made in another thread here today, that innovation only happens in the EU as long as it's government funded and as soon as the funding stops, work stops and everything gets shelved instead of the private industry picking up the slack, funding it further to commercialize it like in the US. Sad.

“It’s possible that [Germany] threw away its clear vanguard role because research wasn’t consistently continued at the time,” Schmidhuber said. He added that carmakers might have shied away from self-driving technology because it seemed to be in opposition to their marketing, which promoted the idea of a driver in charge of steering a car."

[constantcrying]

>It's funny that German, and Italian researchers and car makers had the early lead on self driving tech and then lost it by shelving the tech. Oof.

Actually a very common occurrance. I don't think FSD on todays level was possible in '94 and the projects failure was inevitable unless it had been continously funded for at least 15 years more.

>innovation only happens in the EU as long as it's government funded and as soon as the funding stops

Seems like a bad example. Funding stopped because the technology didn't work.

[jeffreygoesto]

Ernst Dickmanns. Legend. Sat close to him at a CVPR and he could not resist to rant about "How's that new? We did that in the 90es!" =:-D

[moffkalast]

> What do they have now?

> > Mercedes sprinter

I don't know why but that is hysterical.