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DARPA Urban Challenge (2007): http://www.google.com/search?tbm=vid&q=darpa+urban+chall...

Several teams competed, entering driverless cars which interacted with each other and some vehicles operated by real people on a closed course. Carnegie Mellon's Boss car completed all the DARPA conditions and won the grand prize.

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Thanks a lot. I wish there was a higher density of cars. Also different teams => different systems.. that might introduce good jitter to avoid systemic locks. Anyhow it feels pretty safe.. can't wait to see it becomes standard.

One issue that I haven't seen much talked about is the is system wide control instabilities if everything is automated, as you have alluded to. I also don't know if anyone is doing any work in preventing cross talk and interference when you have several dozen vehicle all with similar lasers and radars in close proximity. If you operate two of the popular Velodyne lasers near each other, used on the Google vehicles, you get a good amount of noise on both sensors.

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