Dean Pomerleau at Carnegie Mellon University built ALVINN (Autonomous Land Vehicle in a Neural Network), a precursor to modern self-driving cars. It was a simple neural network connected to a video camera that successfully steered a physical military truck on public roads at speeds up to 70 km/h.
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