Lessons Learned from 75 years of Automated Vehicles by Daniel Bartz

From Silicon Valley Autonomous Vehicle Enthusiasts meetup group, organized by Gregory Dibb

Sep 14, 2015 · hosted by Nissan Research Center - Silicon Valley

Joint meetup with SVAOS:
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.

Daniel Bartz has worked on automated vehicle systems over last 15 years from including everything from robotic lawnmowers to automated 100 ton military trucks. Dan has a Masters in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon and undergraduate degrees in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering from Kettering University (formerly General Motors University). He participated in both the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge and the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge. Mr. Bartz has worked for in both the automotive and the defense industries where he focused on getting life-saving intelligent vehicle technology onto the road and into the field. Dan has also written on topics including automated vehicles and robotics for WIRED Magazine's Autopia blog.