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Stavens co-founded and was CEO of Udacity. [33] Udacity helped popularize the concept of the offering college courses for free as Massive open online course's (MOOC), [34] intended to make high-quality education accessible and nearly free around the entire world via Internet. [35] As CEO, he grew the company to 160,000 students and 20 employees ...
On January 23, 2012, he co-founded an online private educational organization, Udacity, which produced massive open online courses. [11] He was a Google VP and Fellow, and worked on development of the Google driverless car system, after winning DARPA Grand Challenge and finishing in second place in DARPA Urban Challenge as a professor. [12]
Udacity is the outgrowth of free computer science classes offered in 2011 through Stanford University. [9] Thrun has stated he hopes half a million students will enroll, after an enrollment of 160,000 students in the predecessor course at Stanford, Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, [10] and 90,000 students had enrolled in the initial two classes as of March 2012.
A Toyota Prius modified to operate as a Google driverless car, navigating a test course [97] (2011) In 2009, Google began testing its self-driving cars in the San Francisco Bay Area. [98] By December 2013, Nevada, Florida, California, and Michigan had passed laws permitting autonomous cars. [99] A law proposed in Texas allowed testing. [100] [101]
Elon Musk's Crash Course is a 2022 New York Times–FX documentary film directed and produced by Emma Schwartz with reporting by Cade Metz and Neal Boudette. [1] The documentary explores the promises made by Tesla's CEO Elon Musk in regards to self-driving cars and contrasts that with the fatal accidents that have occurred using the technology.
A self-driving car, also known as a autonomous car (AC), driverless car, robotaxi, robotic car or robo-car, [1] [2] [3] is a car that is capable of operating with reduced or no human input. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Self-driving cars are responsible for all driving activities, such as perceiving the environment, monitoring important systems, and controlling ...
Autonomous racing, self-driving racing or autonomous motorsports is an evolving sport of racing ground-based wheeled vehicles, controlled by computer. A number of events and series have launched, including the international Formula E spin-off series Roborace. [1] and Self Racing Cars [2] [3] as well as student competitions such as Formula ...
[2] [3] The company was co-founded in 2016 by Bryan Salesky and Peter Rander, veterans of the Google and Uber automated driving programs. [4] Argo AI was an independent company that built software, hardware, maps, and cloud-support infrastructure to power self-driving vehicles. Argo was mostly backed by Ford Motor Co.