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by jbarrow 4295 days ago
I actually visited a German University (TU-Braunschweig) that works with a German car company to research driverless cars. The project that I saw [1] used Lidar as a verification method, but the ultimate aim was to be able to drive without it.

The interesting takeaway that I had from the visit was that the team working on this car believes that even partially autonomous cars are a technology that will come into the main stream only several decades into the future.

[1] http://www.spiegel.de/video/fahrerloses-auto-leonie-kreuzt-d...

Sorry, the link is to a video in German. I'm sure that if you search for Braunschweig "Leonie" you may find a source in English.

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"only several decades into the future" sounds like a conservative estimate for partially autonomous cars becoming mainstream.