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8 Most Creative People in Business 2011
By siliconindia
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Tuesday, 18 October 2011, 01:23 IST |
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5. Sebastian Thrun/Google:
When Sebastian was growing up in Germany, a car accident killed a childhood friend, and last November, another accident claimed the life of a coworker. Both crashes were avoidable. Both the accidents instigated him to develop robotic cars that drive more safely. His invention also won government's $2 million DARPA challenge. His vehicle drove itself across the 132-mile desert racecourse. After which he hired two of his competitors to join him at Google. Each car is equipped with sensors that gather millions of data points per second about the surroundings and differentiate cars, pedestrians, birds, you name it. The unmanned vehicles of theirs have driven more than 140,000 miles till date.
