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AutonomouStuff Applying Lessons Learned From Summer Self-Driving Vehicle Pilot

It will probably be a while yet before autonomous vehicles are deployed on a widespread basis. 

That's according to Bobby Hambrick, the CEO of Morton's AutonomouStuff.

"First and foremost, safety is everything. So there are multiple layers of redundancy in the perception system, in the computing architecture, the control architecture," he said. "So that's why it's not deployed yet. There's still a lot of work to be done." 

AutonomouStuff tested out its self-driving vehicles on the streets of downtown Peoria over the summer.

Hambrick said his company is sharing what it learned from that pilot with its customers across the world to help them replicate their successes and avoid their mistakes.

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Tim Shelley is the News Director at WCBU Peoria Public Radio.