Long before Elon Musk’s Tesla, Inc. existed, there was Navlab, a series of autonomous and semi-autonomous vehicles developed by teams from The Robotics Institute at the School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University. Kicking things off, we have the Navlab 1, which is based on a 1986 Chevrolet panel van. It featured five racks of computer components, including three Sun workstations, video hardware, a GPS receiver, and a Warp supercomputer. Unfortunately, it suffered from many software limitations and was not fully functional until the late 1980s.
Navlab 1 was followed by Navlab 2, built using a 1990 US Army HMMWV. Instead of three Sun workstations and a single supercomputer, this model boasted three Sparc 10 computers for high level data processing, along with two 68000-based computers designed for low level control. This military vehicle was capable of going off-road, but its speed was limited to a top speed of 6 mph. When on normal surfaces, it had a top speed of 70 mph.
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I think if you go back in time and get one of those cars now…you’d be shocked at how identical it is in some situations to the performance you see on cars that are now commercial. Very proud of that,” said Dr. Jochem, who now drives a Tesla Model S, in an email to Digital Trends.
