Driverless Cars: 15 Surprising Facts About Their Unique History

2. The First Robot Car Came in the 1980s

Long before Teslas or Waymo, the first true robot car, named VaMoRs, was developed in Germany by Ernst Dickmanns and his team in the 1980s. This innovation laid key groundwork for today’s systems. Carnegie Mellon’s Navlab project soon followed. Learn more from spectrum.ieee.