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Self-Driving Car Test: Steve Mahan
Google's 2012 video of Steve Mahan, who is legally blind, taking a drive in its self-driving car including a drive-through stop. It was shared as a human-interest demonstration of the technology's promise.
Cited as an early milestone of autonomous driving, and later as an example of over-optimistic timelines.
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