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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.
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]
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]
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 . (2017) [ 5 ] and the Volkswagen Group (2020). [ 6 ]
In December 2018, Zoox became the first company to gain approval for providing self-driving transport services to the public in California. [17] [18] [19] By July 2018, according to Bloomberg, Zoox had raised $800 million in venture capital, at a valuation of $3.2 billion. [20] Draper Fisher Jurvetson is an investor in the company.
Aurora Innovation, Inc., doing business as Aurora, is a self-driving vehicle technology company based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. [1] Aurora has developed the Aurora Driver, a computer system that can be integrated into cars for autonomous driving.
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 ...
A self-driving Uber car accident in 2018 is an example of autonomous vehicle accidents that are also listed among self-driving car fatalities. A report made by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) showed that the self-driving Uber car was unable to identify the victim in a sufficient amount of time for the vehicle to slow down and ...