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1. Project background and objectives
1.1 History of the autonomous driving vehicle
The creation of a self-driving vehicle is part of the history of automata and robots. In 1925, the American company Houdina Radio Control introduced a radio-controlled car onto the streets of New York. In the 1950s, the British industry TRRL (Transport and Road Research Laboratory) launched the promotion of "filoguidage", a robotic process used today in industrial logistics centers, to guide a car over cables buried in the ground. In 1960, French cybernetics engineer Albert Ducrocq made a name for himself with his "electronic foxes", metal-detecting robots. In 1970 and 1971, Appolo's LRV (Lunar Roving Vehicle) rovers and Russia's Lunokhod 1 were tested on site. In 1990, the European Prometheus program (Program for a European Traffic System...
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Standards and norms
- Taxonomy and Definitions for Terms Related to On-Road Motor Vehicle Automated Driving Systems ITS-G51. - SAE J3016 - (2014)
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