Darpa challenged carnegi to build a robot that could drive across the ottacama desert at fifty miles an hour. Carnegi says he and his adviser were looking for signs of life on other planets when they came up with the idea. The project was funded by research funds from Carnegie malon, which is not tuition-free but does have scholarships....
Chris Urmson the CEO of Aurora, a leading self-driving company, joins Jason to recount the history of autonomous vehicles (1:06), the roadmap for removing human drivers (16:47), what technology problems are left to solve (38:25) and more!