Hacker Disables 100 Cars Remotely
1st March 2010
In March of 2010 a former employee at a Texas Auto Center remotely bricked over 100 cars sold from the auto center to get revenge on his former...
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A Security History of Autonomous Vehicles
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VW Temporary Auto Pilot
21st June 2011
The Executive Director of the Volkswagen Research Group presented Temporary Auto Pilot at the EU HAVEit.
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Researchers Prove Wireless Vulnerability
1st August 2011
Remote exploitation of the wireless communication channels was proven as feasible by a set of security researchers from the University of California,...
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Jeep Remotely Hacked
1st July 2013
The actual date of the incident is limited to the Summer of 2013. Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek took control of a Jeep Cherokee travelling on a...
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Tesla Fatal Crash, Florida
7th May 2016
On May 7, a 2015 Tesla Model S 70D struck a refrigerated truck on US Highway 27A. The driver died in the accident.
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Autonomous Shuttle Minor Accident
8th November 2017
Navya's test shuttle, without a steering wheel, brake pedal, or accelerator was involved in a minor accident in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Tesla Crash Firetruck
22nd January 2018
A 2014 Tesla Model S collided with a parked firetruck parked diagonally across the HOV lane. A prior accident in the HOV lane had lead to the parked...
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Uber's Self-driving SUV Killed Elaine Herzberg
18th March 2018
On March 18, 2018, Uber's test vehicle struck Elaine Herzberg at 39 mph while she was crossing the street in Tempe, Arizona. The crash was fatal.
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Tesla Fatal Crash, California
23rd March 2018
A fatal accident occurred in Mountain View, CA on March 23rd, 2018, where a driver was operating a 2017 Tesla Model X P100D. The vehicle struck a...
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Drive.ai Self-Driving Service
19th October 2018
Drive.ai began a self-driving vehicle service. The startup company launched its service in Arlington, Texas, intended to drive passengers around to...
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Tesla Fatal Crash, Florida
1st March 2019
A 2018 Tesla Model 3 traveling southbound on State Highway 441 struck an eastbound semi-tractor trailer. The driver of the Tesla died.
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Tesla Crash, Police Car
7th December 2019
A Tesla Model 3 hit the back of parked police vehicle with flashing emergency lights on the highway, while autopilot was engaged.
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Tesla Fatal Crash, Red Light
29th December 2019
A Tesla Model S traveled through a red light and collided with another vehicle resulting in two deaths. The NHTSA is currently investigating the cause...
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Tesla Fatal Crash, Firetruck
29th December 2019
A Tesla Model 3 struck a parked firetruck in Indiana. The passenger of the Tesla did not survive the accident. The NHTSA is conducting an...
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National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act
18th August 1966
President Lyndon B. Johnson, seeking to reduced highway accidents and provide a more comprehensive scheme of regulations, proposed the safety...
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H.R.2950 - Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991
27th November 1991
Rep. Mineta, Norman Y. [D-CA-13] introduced this bill to the House on Jul 18, 1991. The bill became public law on Dec 18, 1991.
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S. 1806 - SPY Car Act of 2015
21st July 2015
On July 7, 2015 Sen. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA] introduced the SPY Car Act to the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation committee. The bill was...
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Auto-ISAC
1st August 2015
The automotive information sharing and analysis center was establish in August 2015 by the automotive industry. The auto alliance formed before any...
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Federal Automated Vehicles Policy: Accelerating the Next Revolution In...
1st September 2016
The NHTSA created a comprehensive federal policy for Autonomous Vehicle development. The report divides the implementation and development of...
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H.R. 3388 (115th): SELF DRIVE Act
25th July 2017
The bill was first introduced on July 25th, 2017 by Rep. Robert Latta (R-OH5). The bill passed the House on September 7th, 2017, but never passed the...
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Automated Driving Systems 2.0: A Vision for Safety
12th September 2017
The NHTSA revised and limited the federal regulatory role in the development and implementation of Autonomous Vehicles one year following the...
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S. 1885 (115th): AV START Act
28th September 2017
The bill was introduced on September 28th, 2017 by Sen. John Thune (R-SD). The bill did not reach the floor and no further action was taken.
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Uber Settlement for Fatal Crash
26th March 2018
Following a fatal accident in Arizona with Uber's autonomous vehicle, the family of the decedent filed suit. The suit was settled in March, 2018.
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Preparing for the Future of Transportation: Automated Vehicles 3.0
4th October 2018
The third update in the series of Federal policy on autonomous vehicles was provided in 2018. The goal of ADS 3.0 is to build on the previous...
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Complaint Filed Against Tesla
26th April 2019
The family of the driver who died in a Tesla crash in Mountain View, California filed a complaint in State court.
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Ensuring American Leadership in Automated Vehicle Technologies: Automated...
23rd December 2019
The fourth update to automated vehicle policy builds on the third in three areas: (1) USG AV Principles; (2) Administration efforts supporting AV...
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NHTSA Grants Exemption for Low-speed Vehicles
6th February 2020
Nuro, Inc. petitioned for a temporary exemption from three provisions of the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard. The petition was granted on Feb....
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UNECE WP.29 (Regulation mandating security of autonomous vehicles)
23rd June 2020
Two UN Regulations were created bu the UNECE 's World Forum for Harmonization of Vehicle Regulations. The United States is not a party to the...
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World's Fair Futurama
30th April 1939
Norman Bel Giddes, from General Motors, introduced the world to the future of driver technology (expected in the 1960s). At the Futurama exhibit,...
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RCA and General Motors
14th Feb 1953 - 14th Feb 1958
General Motors teamed up with Radio Corporation of America to develop scale model automated highways. In 1958, GM announced that it had successfully...
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Stanford Cart
1st Jan 1961 - 1st Dec 1961
Sometimes referred to as the world's first truly self-driving vehicle, the cart was built by a Stanford Graduate student during the height of the...
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World Fair: Futurama II
1st Jan 1964 - 31st Dec 1964
At the second Futurama, GM presented to the world an automated highway concept. The concept provided a control tower to operate and steer each car on...
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NavLab 1-11 Begins
7th Aug 1986 - 7th Aug 2000
From 1986 through to 2000, a group of researchers from Carnegie Mellon developed several prototype autonomous vehicles.
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VaMoRs
1st Jan 1987 - 1st Dec 1987
A sedan was equipped with cameras and 60 micro-processing modules was developed by German engineer Ernst Dickmanns.
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NavLab 5 "No Hands Across America"
7th July 1995
The NavLab 5 was the fifth iteration of an autonomous vehicle developed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University. The 1990 Pontiac Trans Sport...
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DEMO '97
7th August 1997
The National Automated Highway System Consortium conducted a demonstration of the automated highway system. This was a proof of technical feasibility...
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FCC Reserves DSRC
11th June 1998
The FCC reserved 75 megahertz of the 5.9 GHz spectrum band to be used for highway safety and transportation into the 21st century. This section of the...
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DARPA Grand Challenge 2004
13th March 2004
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency challenged racers to autonomously navigate a 142 mile track from California to Nevada. The first team to...
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DARPA Grand Challenge 2005
8th October 2005
Like the 2004 grand challenge, DARPA challenged teams to autonomously traverse a 132 mile course in Nevada.
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DARPA Grand Challenge
7th November 2007
The third of the DARPA Grand Challenge's was titled the Urban Challenge. Unlike the previous challenges, the Urban Challenge took place on real...
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Google Self-driving Car Project: Pribot
1st January 2009
Google began its autonomous vehicle journey after recruiting the inventor of Google Street View and the professor from the winning team at the DARPA...
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Audi Races to the top of Pike's Peak
25th September 2010
Audi's autonomous TTS raced up Pike's Peak in 27 minutes, landing another milestone in autonomous vehicle development.
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Google's Project travels 140,000miles
9th October 2010
Google unveiled its quiet project testing the capabilities of its autonomous vehicle systems. The vehicles had travelled over 140,000 miles using...
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Volvo Road-Train
17th September 2012
Volvo Car Corporation partnered with an EU initiative called the safe road trains for the environment project (SARTRE).
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Ground Penetrating Radar
1st January 2013
Ground Penetrating Radar is a radar system that sends pulses into the ground to view what is underneath. The technology had its first use in measuring...
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VisLab - BRAiVE
12th July 2013
The BRAiVE test vehicle successfully drove to downtown Parma, Italy without a driver marking another milestone in autonomous driving.
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Delphi Travels Cross-Country
15th April 2015
The autonomous vehicle travelled from San Diego, California across fifteen states to New York City, New York. The total time of the trip was nine...
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Tesla Autopilot
15th October 2015
Tesla released the version 7.0 update that gave Autopilot features to any Model S sold since October 2014.
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Cadillac Super Cruise
10th April 2017
Cadillac introduced the Super Cruise, "hands-free driving technology" on its 2018 model vehicles. The system is built around a driver-attention system...
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Nissan ProPilot
17th October 2017
Nissan ProPilot is a commercially available driver assisting technology launched in 2017. Nissan calims the assist technology will be the foundation...
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Tesla Navigate on Autopilot
26th October 2018
Tesla updated its autopilot features to incorporate "navigate on autopilot." The updated software allows the vehicle to change lanes, travel from an...
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Waymo One
1st Dec 2018 - 31st Dec 2018
Waymo launched a commercial self-driving car service in Phoenix, Arizona. The Waymo autonomous vehicle would provide self-driving service to several...
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Toyota E-Pallette
24th October 2019
Toyota revealed a new concept of the E-Pallette autonomous vehicle intended to be used during the 2020 Olympics for moving athletes. The vehicle was...
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A Security History of Autonomous Vehicles
This timeline provides an overview of the crashes and vulnerabilities, and technical and legal developments of Autonomous Vehicles.
This timeline was created as a forward facing project for Dr. Andrea Matwyshyn's Information Security class in Fall 2020. The goal was to synthesize existing streams of data into a more uniform and perceptible visualization with a focus on security and vulnerable systems.