16 - Daniel Bartz: Lessons Learned from 75 years of Automated Vehicles

The automotive press is filled with articles about Automotive RADAR, drive-by-wire, vehicle-to-vehicle communications, and self-driven vehicles. Automakers and Electronics companies are lobbying Congress to build smart highways and lawyers debate liability and who is to blame when automated vehicles go awry. These concerns could be clipped from today's paper, but they were also topical in the 1950's. After 20 years and millions of dollars of automated vehicle R&D, the auto industry was gearing up to bring the technology to market...so why didn't they?

This talk is on the 75+ years of history of automated driving, the lessons learned, and why things are different today...or not.