Equation 1 · From Origins to Frontier: A History of Robotics and Embodied AI
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The arithmetic behind that result is worth making explicit, because it explains why the next eighteen months mattered more than the raw distance suggests. If a course of length L miles must be driven without a mission-ending error, and a vehicle’s probability of such an error is q per mile and roughly independent from one mile to the next, the probability of finishing the course is approximately
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- [11] The DARPA Grand Challenge: Ten Years Later ↗
- [9] Stanley: The Robot that Won the DARPA Grand Challenge ↗
- [10] Autonomous Driving in Urban Environments: Boss and the Urban Challenge ↗
- [17] Driving to Safety: How Many Miles of Driving Would It Take to Demonstrate Autonomous Vehicle Reliability? ↗
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