Can the Public Beat GM, Google and Uber on Self-Driving Cars?

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I'm excited to be leading this project at Udacity! I'm happy to answer any questions (before boarding this flight). Fire away!

Some helpful links:

1. Join our Slack community to learn about the first crowdsourced challenge: http://nd013.udacity.com

2. We're launching our curriculum in October. Apply to enroll in our first cohort! https://udacity.com/drive

I think this is mainly a "data" challege, how does Udacity plan on gaining an upper hand on this, especially with competitors like Uber and Tesla which gather data exponentially with each new ride/car sold?

I don't think goal of this challenge is to beat Uber and Tesla (in fact, the "nanodegree" is partnered with Uber's self driving car division).

The goal is to create open source software for self-driving cars. That's a win if the quality is anywhere close to what Uber and Tesla have developed.

The first challenge is to create a conv net that decides how to turn the wheel to stay in the lanes, similar to what Nvidia described in their devblog.

https://devblogs.nvidia.com/parallelforall/deep-learning-sel...

Expect data to be released within a week. Join the Slack team at http://nd013.udacity.com for more details (channel: challenge-1).

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