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Well, you asked and yes I do know.


When I worked at Carnegie Mellon University, back in the early 2000's they were all over this in terms of innovation.


CMU's Robotic Institute had or has a program with GM (http://gm.web.cmu.edu, http://rtml.ece.cmu.edu/Shuster/, etc.)


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Uber just gutted them as well for their own driver-less car.

http://www.theverge.com/transportation/2015/5/19/8622831/uber-self-driving-cars-carnegie-mellon-poached

"They took all the guys that were working on vehicle autonomy — basically whole groups, whole teams of developers, commercialization specialists, all the guys that find grants and who were bringing the intellectual property," recalls a person who was there during the departures. "These guys, they took everybody."


Money talks; shit walks.