[david_b]

I'd say Daimler and co. got there first:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eureka_Prometheus_Project

Google has obviously taken taken that a lot further (no driver reacting every 9km)

> "We kind of laugh when we see news stories about self-driving cars, because we've had that for years," Poole said.

Yup, no wonder he is a farmer (to be fair: if you're running a tractor at 2 am you may well imagine there to be heavy traffic on the field...).

[kriro]

Daimler is also doing quite a bit with self driving trucks. I'd guess they have to be a leader in that domain. Admittedly they weren't really on my radar until the recent news about their tests in Nevada.