How Did DARPA Change?

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I'm really curious, just from your perspective, working in the space, how did DARPA change? Again, as journalists and whatever, that's always where you go back to start the story. I know actually, a lot of automated driving was happening in Europe before then. What was that like to be working in this space, to have something like the DARPA challenge happen? Obviously, LiDAR got pushed for a lot of things happened there. But what was that experience like?

The story of automated driving often starts with the DARPA Challenges of 2004-07, but for Jan Becker the story starts well before then. On this week's episode, the AV pioneer and founder of Apex AI describes his own path through a tumultuous decade for the technology, and how the class he teaches at Stanford has evolved to include a variety of critical non-technical lessons.