1997 : Alan Alda & Scientific American Frontiers : Look, No Hands!

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Channel: CMU Robotics Institute · 2017 · Science & Technology

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Features Martial Hebert, Chuck Thorpe & Dean Pomerleau talking with Alan Alda in 1997 about the work being done at Carnegie Mellon University researching the possibilities of autonomous vehicles.

CMU's Robotics Institute has been pioneering driverless car technology since the mid-1980s and by the mid-1990s these research vehicles were being taken on highways across the country and around the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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