Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) created the Autonomous Grand Challenge on March 13th, 2004. Now comes AUTONOMY PRIME. Autonomy is not a feature; it is the North Star. It will unleash the largest productivity boom and secure our national supply chains for both commercial and defense. WHAT IS AUTONOMY PRIME? 1 - Establishing the North Star for Autonomy for both Civil and Defense 2 - Deploying Intelligent Infrastructure Grids to Enable Autonomy 3 - Activating 24 x 7 x 365 pursuits of Autonomous Systems 4 - Launching Intelligent Infrastructure Economic Zones Nationwide AUTONOMY PRIME: https://lnkd.in/g76JrbgQ Hitchhiker's Guide to Autonomy: https://lnkd.in/gh3nsMZ4 Autonomy Institute CONTINUUM of Innovation Capital: https://lnkd.in/gxxNBTtC
Director of Technology and Innovation Coverage at Automotive News, writing about the future of transportation. Host of the Shift mobility podcast.
Twenty years ago today, the inaugural DARPA Grand Challenge set the stage for the self-driving industry we know today. Nobody won, but it was far from a flop. Then-DARPA director Tony Tether, Carnegie Mellon University's Red Whittaker, Pronto's Anthony Levandowski and Waymo's Melanie Dumas Grimm all shared their recollections for this story: