How a Machine Learns to Drive

From a 1940s robotic tortoise to CMU NavLab, ALVINN's neural net and today's end-to-end AI — how cars learned to see, plan and steer themselves, explained by the engineers who did it.

Playlist by @av_grand_challenge

16 tracks, shared on Audicious.

  1. Watch This 1940s Robotic Tortoise Navigate A Room By Itself | Impossible Engineering — Science Channel
  2. NavLab 1 (1986) : Carnegie Mellon : Robotics Institute History of Self-Driving Cars — CMU Robotics Institute
  3. Self Driving Cars [S1E2: ALVINN] — Welch Labs
  4. The First Self Driving Car is 500 Years Old — Not Exactly Normal
  5. Deep Learning Cars — Samuel Arzt
  6. Autonomous car / self-driving car - How it works! (Animation) — Thomas Schwenke
  7. How do self-driving cars “see”? - Sajan Saini — TED-Ed
  8. How Does a Self-Driving Car See? (Waymo's system explained) — What's AI by Louis-François Bouchard
  9. The Evolution of Self-Driving Vehicles — IEEE Spectrum
  10. Self-driving Cars: How Do They Work? — History of Simple Things
  11. What Is Lidar and How Does It Help Self-Driving Cars Make Decisions On The Road? | Defined | Forbes — Forbes
  12. Lidar vs. Tesla: the race for fully self driving cars — The Verge
  13. Why Elon Musk Hates LIDAR and Tesla Won’t Use It — Newsthink
  14. How lidar ACTUALLY works in self driving cars — Vik's Newsletter
  15. Lidar Technologies 101 — Hesai Technology
  16. Self Driving Cars with Velodyne Lidar's David Hall — Velodyne Lidar