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The First Real-Time Automated Highway Cross-Country Drive (1995)

    The Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University deployed the Navlab 5 vehicle in its “No Hands Across America” experiment. Utilizing the ALVINN artificial neural network to process real-time video feeds of road lane markings, the autonomous system steered a physical car for 2,797 miles from Pittsburgh to San Diego, controlling 98.2% of the transcontinental journey.

    Part of the 30 AI Roots Facts: The Dawn of Internet & Statistical Foundations (1990–1995) archive. HistoricallyVerified

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