Autonomy by Lawrence D. Burns, Christopher Shulgan
Book: Autonomy: The Quest to Build the Driverless Car—And How It Will Reshape Our World by Lawrence D. Burns,
Christopher Shulgan
Timeline
- 1885 - First Car (Daimler)
- 1896 - Ford’s first car
- 1903 - Ford motor company inc
- 1983 - John Krafcik joins NUMMI
- 1998 - EV1 decomissioned
- 1998 - Larry Burns appointed head of GM Research & Planning division
- 1999 - Zipcar founder by Robin Chase
- 2001 - Dean Kamen introduces Segway
- 2002 - Sunil Paul files ride sharing related patent for algorithm to find efficient path between two points
- 2003 - Bush offers incentives for Fuel cell tech
- 2003 - Urmson to Atacama
- 2003 - Tesla founded
- 2004 - DARPA challenge 1 (no winners)
- 2004 - John Krafcik joins Hyundai
- 2005 - GM: Byron McCormick showed Larry Burns the drastic reduction in parts that E-Flex arch would bring - 1000 parts compared to 10K for cars with Internal Combustion engines
- 2005 - DARPA challenge 2 (Thrun)
- 2006 - iPhone released
- 2007 - DARPA Urban challenge (Tartan racing)
- 2007 - GM reaches agreement with UAW to reduce wages in exchange for setting up healthcare trust managed by UAW
- 2008 - Housing crisis
- 2008 - Gas prices > $3.50
- 2008 - Larry Burns leaves GM
- 2008, 2009 - Obama slashed funding forFuel cells and focused on Electric & Battery tech
- 2008 - Tesla roadster released
- 2008, October - Google starts self driving project under Thrun, Urmson, Levondowski
- 2008, Nov, 17- UberCab founded, but only for Blackcar limoes
- 2010 - Zimride generally available in SF & LA. Later founder Logan Green and John Zimmer would start Lyft
- 2010 - Uber app for blackcar limoes available
- 2010, Sept/October - Project Chauffeur completes Larry1K, Project announced on google blog.
- 2010 - Tesla IPO
- 2011 - Larry Burns publishes paper on Earth Institite abt vision for autonomous cars as well as transportation as a service. Research shows US residents drive 3T miles per year with cost of car ownership $0.65/mile + $0.85/mile in terms of lost productivity = $1.50/mile
- 2011 - Sidecar started
- 2012 - Google develops Drivers Assist product
- 2012, June - Tesla Model S released
- 2012, Nov - Google hires Ron Medford, former deputy admin of NHTSA
- 2014, May - Google ready with Firefly “mobility pods” concept vehicle at Code conf
- 2014 - Mercedes launches Driver Assist feature in cars
- 2014/15 - Uber starts work on autonomous cars under Jeff Holden
- 2015 - Ford kickstarts work on mobility innovation
- 2015 - Nissan, Toyota start
- 2015 - GM buys Cruise
- 2015- Year Congress mandate to have 1/3 of military vehicles to be self driving by, which resulted in the DARPA challenges
- 2015, May - Google announced deal with Fiat Chrysler
- 2015, Oct - Tesla releases AutoPilot in Model S
- 2016, Jan, 4 - GM invests in Lyft
- 2016, May, 7 - Tesla crash caused by AutoPilot results in driver’s death
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