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 In the 1950's, autonomous cars represented the modern life of luxury that was just around the corner and were seen in popular media throughout the 50's and 60's. Disney also imagined a world of self-driving cars, with a heavy emphasis on leisure. The May 14, 1958 episode of the Disneyland TV series titled "Magic Highway USA" examined the future of transportation, including the future of driverless vehicles, complete with a game of checkers.
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 Bill and Sue Severn published a book which detailed their vision of driverless car technology entitled "Highways to Tomorrow" in 1958.
-*The research for autonomous vehicles in Japan began in 1977 by the Tsukuba Mechanical Engineering Lab.
-*The Bundeswehr Universität München in Europe experimented with video-driven cars in the 1980s, and
-*The U.S. experimented with an automated highway system in the 1990s.
-*The Parkshuttle Phileas is a bus operated by the Dutch Transit Authority.  It is driverless, and operates on its own roadway.  It does occasionally need to be manually overridden by a driver.
-*DARPA (Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency) handed a $2M prize in 2005 to a group from Stanford University that created a modified Volkswagen Touareg named Stanley that drove 150 miles of Nevada Desert autonomously.
-*The Tartan Racing Team (Carnegie Melon) won DARPA's 2007 challenge to navigate a driverless vehicle through a 60 mile mock urban course.
-*As of 2011, Nevada will issue licenses to operate autonomous cars within the state.  The first license was issued to Google, which gives it the ability to test its driverless technology.
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