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Topic

self-driving cars in the archive

Reports filed on self-driving cars between 2015 and 2018, kept at the addresses they were published under.

Reports
62
Period
2015–2018
Sources
4
Topic
self-driving cars

Context

The archive holds 62 reports filed under self-driving cars, spanning 2015–2018. The earliest is “Will Autonomous Cars Change the Role and Value of Public Transportation?”; the most recent is “CTS and CES 2018: Automotive Tech Innovators Ready to Wow in Las Vegas”. Original reporting came via Jennifer van der Kleut, Bobatoo.co.uk, Burney Simpson and others.

This period matters for a specific reason: it is when the industry's assumptions were set. Testing permits were first issued, the acquisitions that consolidated the perception layer closed, the regulatory frameworks still in force were drafted, and a great many confident deployment dates were published. Almost all of those dates passed without incident, which makes the contemporaneous record more useful now than it was at the time — it can be read against what actually happened.

Coverage under self-driving cars overlaps most often with driverless cars, autonomous cars, Google and Testing, which is a reasonable map of where the topic sat in the industry's attention.

For what the listed companies in this field did over the same period, the D20 index roster tracks the corporate side. For what has since been deployed on public roads, the deployment tracker records operators, cities and dates, and the research library holds the papers this reporting drew on.

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Reports filed under self-driving cars

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