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		bsbechtel on June 22, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google didn’t lead the self-driving vehicle revolu... To be fair, they also started working on the problem before Google even existed, with technology more primitive than Google's first servers.

bryanlarsen on June 22, 2015 [–]

Yes, I know of professors who were doing field trials of self-driving tractors 30 years ago, and I'm sure they weren't the first.

acadien on June 22, 2015 | [–]

The mining industry has dreamed of self driving vehicles to replace humans in dangerous work conditions for ages.

cake on June 22, 2015 | | [–]

Nothing new here : http://mining.sandvik.com/en/products/equipment/mine-automat...

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