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DARPA Grand Challenge

In 2005 five driverless vehicles finish a 212 km desert course; Stanford's Stanley wins and its engineers go on to build robotaxis.

The 2004 race had no finisher, and one year later machine vision, GPS, lidar and probabilistic filtering worked. The 2007 Urban Challenge and many engineers of the winning teams led directly to Waymo and other self-driving programmes.