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A Brief Note On Google Self Driving Car

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Google Self-Driving Car is the first of autonomous cars successfully made today, developed by Google X as part of its project to develop mainly electric cars. The technology in Google’s cars is named Google Chauffeur. The project was led by Sebastian Thrun, former director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and co-inventor of Google Street View. Thrun 's team at Stanford created the first self-driving vehicle named Stanley, which was the only car that won the 2005 DARPA Challenge, a $2 million prize from the United States Department of Defense. There were 15 engineers working on this project for Google, including Chris Urmson, Mike Montemerlo, and Anthony Levandowski who had worked on the DARPA Grand and Urban …show more content…

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