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Autonomous cars by 2000s

Legacy lead · see outcome dispositionResearch snapshot · October 15, 2026
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Original intake · research history. This lead is preserved as imported. It is not scored or redirected. QUARANTINE RELATED VERSION ONLY

1990 source/2009 autonomy date not established; do not substitute the 1999 intelligent-highway version.

Attribution unresolved — outcome conditional on this wording

Autonomous cars are common on ordinary roads by 2009.

Conditional verdict: PARTIAL

At original deadline: NOT FULFILLED · By review: PARTLY FULFILLED

DARPA challenge demonstrations are not common road use. Geofenced public robotaxi service later gives meaningful partial realization; it does not satisfy common autonomy on ordinary roads generally.

LATE for publicly available driverless rides in a defined service area, documented in 2020.

Excluded from aggregate author accuracy. Conditional wording and related canonical versions are never counted twice.

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Disposition sources: P01

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The original imported lead.

IMPORTED PARAPHRASE · NOT A VERIFIED QUOTATION

Autonomous cars by 2000s

The Age of Intelligent Machines (1990)

1990 · Attribution / year unconfirmed
Page, edition, or timestamp not yet established

No verified source URL recorded
Normalized claim
Not established. The testable claim will be written after the original wording is checked.
Success criteria
Not established. Thresholds, adoption requirements, geography, cost, and required technology must be retained during review.
Claim type
Not classified
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Timeline

PREDICTION MADE1990Unconfirmed source year
ORIGINAL TARGET2009No exact deadline used in statistics
FULL REALIZATION—No achievement year established
Outcome at original deadlineUNREVIEWED
Outcome at reviewUNREVIEWED

Supplied target wording: 2009. No confirmed date is used in calculations. Forecast horizon: not established. Drift is a calendar-year difference, not a precise elapsed duration.

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The evidence.

No outcome evidence has been verified.

Legacy ratings are preserved in the source package. They have not been accepted as evidence for this assessment.

Capability, adoption, and timing

A related breakthrough is not automatically fulfillment. Review must check the actual capability, how widely it was required to be used, the specified technology, and the original deadline. A prototype cannot establish a claim about routine or widespread use.

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Research notes & history

Imported research lead only. Verify attribution, deadline, scope and outcome; do not inherit the legacy score. Draft category needs review.

Open questions

  • Check the original wording, attribution, and publication date.
  • Establish the deadline and full success criteria.
  • Resolve repetitions and related forecast versions.
  • Find independent evidence for the deadline and review outcomes.
Imported from
kurzweil_prediction_intake_v0_1.csv · CSV row 40
Legacy identifier
DEC-009
Forecast family
Not assigned
Parent statement
DEC-009
File checksum
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Inspect preserved source fields
Record ID
DEC-009
Prediction — imported lead
Autonomous cars by 2000s
Primary category — draft
Robotics & transportation
Subcategory / secondary tags
Robotics
Claimed source — legacy
The Age of Intelligent Machines (1990)
Source year — unconfirmed
1990
Target text — legacy
2009
Confirmed deadline year
(blank)
At-deadline outcome
UNREVIEWED
Outcome at review
UNREVIEWED
First full-achievement year
(blank)
Review year
2026
Review state
UNREVIEWED
Canonical for statistics?
NO
Forecast family ID
(blank)
Parent statement ID
DEC-009
Prediction source URL
(blank)
Page / paragraph / timestamp
(blank)
Outcome evidence URLs
(blank)
Success criteria / scope
(blank)
Original wording checked?
NO
Adoption stage / claim type
(blank)
Date precision / target interval
(blank)
Review notes
Imported research lead only. Verify attribution, deadline, scope and outcome; do not inherit the legacy score. Draft category needs review.
Legacy import ID
DEC-009
Display status
UNREVIEWED
Drift — years
(blank)
Overdue — years
(blank)
Due and eligible
0
On-time full hit
0
Full realization hit
0
Publication year confirmed
(blank)

Review history

— Evidence v0.2: 1990 source/2009 autonomy date not established; do not substitute the 1999 intelligent-highway version.

— QUARANTINE_RELATED_VERSION_ONLY: 1990 source/2009 autonomy date not established; do not substitute the 1999 intelligent-highway version. Original record retained; no automatic redirect or score inherited.

Related forecasts.

No forecast family has been resolved for this record. Related statements and revised deadlines will be linked during research.