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Google’s Self-Driving Cars Are Powered by Ubuntu

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Marius Nestor
Sep 12, 2013

During the Embedded Linux Conference 2013, conducted by The Linux Foundation, that took place earlier this year, Google had a 24-minute keynote speech hosted by Andrew Chatham, which revealed that their self-driving cars are using a stripped version of Ubuntu. If you’re a technology freak like me, I dare you to watch the video above and learn how Google modified the Ubuntu operating system, and how they manage to control and fix it when needed.
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