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A little more than that.

Navlab 1 was built in 1986 using a Chevrolet panel van.[2] The van had 5 racks of computer hardware, including 3 Sun workstations, video hardware and GPS receiver, and a Warp supercomputer.[2] The vehicle suffered from software limitations and was not fully functional until the late 80s, when it achieved its top speed of 20 mph (32 km/h).[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navlab

The Warp supercomputer is interesting [0] as it's apparently a 'systolic array' computer. Never heard of that architecture before...?

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WARP_(systolic_array)

1989, ALVINN, an autonomous land vehicle in a neural network

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilP4aPDTBPE&t=32s

the paper, for those interested: http://repository.cmu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2874&c...

There's VaMoRs from Ernst Dickmanns (1986)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Dickmanns

Already driving on the Autobahn in '87:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EH3R6c7Ufg

Good thread. What was the school affiliation?