Many of the participants in the Nadav Shoham Robotraffic Competition at Israel’s Technion Institute were too young to drive. Yet they were building autonomous cars. The 1,000 students came from Israel (Jews & Arabs), the US, Argentina, Russia, Mexico, and Ukraine.
https://www.technion.ac.il/en/2019/03/the-nadav-shoham-robotraffic-competition/