What About the DARPA Urban Challenge?

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There's a legend around how self-driving cars or autonomous vehicle technology was made to giant leap forward during DARPA because of the concept of spinning LiDAR. Dave Hall: I think there were three irrelevant outcomes of the DARPA Urban Challenge. The timelines have always been interesting, as they say it's 20 years for the last 50 years and then suddenly shorter than that.

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.