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We still have Test Drivers behind the wheel as a last resort, but we regularly give passenger rides with zero or low disengagements.

As a real-world example: we have a couple who uses our self-driving taxi service multiple times a day every day (The Grims), and their rides are ~95+% autonomous.

We are an optimistic bunch, and it will be a slow rollout (constrained by vehicle build-outs), but we also have experience launching such self-driving taxi services.

We have a service that's live today in San Jose that serves tons of (repeat) riders daily. We've learned a lot there that we're applying directly to Florida.

Human behind the wheel today. A key reason we choose private communities is that we see it as a way to remove that Test Driver much faster, though.

Hello everyone! Oliver, the CEO of Voyage and YC alum (2011) here.

I got started in the self-driving car world as a member of the team that built Udacity's self-driving car curriculum, and also an open source self-driving car. This industry is crazy fun and moving ridiculously fast.

Let me know if I can answer any questions at all about absolutely anything.

We're really excited about bringing Level-4 transportation to the world, but especially so at places like The Villages, Florida. Whether it’s helping those with Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, vision impairment, or just those who want to get around with less friction, we’ve seen first-hand the positive impact autonomous transportation can have for seniors.

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At Voyage we're working to bring about the end-goal of self-driving cars: a world where anyone, anywhere can summon a car directly to their doorstep, travel safely to their destination, all for an extremely low price.

Crucial to our mission is motion planning. To travel from A to B requires a series of decision making and motion planning in the chaotic world of urban driving, and we need world-class engineers to work on this key problem.

I'm the Voyage CEO, so feel free to email me at oliver@voyage.auto or apply here: https://jobs.lever.co/voyage/9a3b9ad9-be45-4ce5-819f-281acb6...

One hundred million percent yes.

Most of this content isn't covered until Terms 2 & 3, but it's surprisingly relevant.

This code is legit (see other comment; download the tar and try to forget you ever visited Sourceforce) and incredibly interesting. I browsed this repo a year ago and still come back to it every so often. The architecture decisions that the Stanford team made in 2005 and 2007 have stood the test of time (at least as evidenced by many of the decisions in the architecture of our Voyage car, but anecdotally in others too).

Learn more with this paper on Junior, which uses this codebase: http://robots.stanford.edu/papers/junior08.pdf

I can verify it's legit (Sebastian Thrun sent this link to me a year or so ago).

Definitely on the roadmap. See ghs.com.

Not from scratch! We use lots and lots of open source (<3 ROS), in addition to secret sauce we've developed over the past year.

We aren't. But you can always summon one of our Voyage taxis and get the same experience for much cheaper!

Retrofitting is such a tough industry to be in. Every car is ridiculously different.

Hello all! Oliver, the CEO of Voyage here. I'm here to answer any questions about Homer I can (sat next to him right now actually: https://www.dropbox.com/s/avznvqa01hftoe2/IMG_1642.jpg?dl=0).

Just let me know!

If you think of the things you'd ask a human Uber driver to do, we need to reproduce almost all of those digitally, whether through voice or just your mobile phone. Things like changing destinations, asking for ETAs, or turning up the AC.

Not at all! The open source self-driving car project is still open sourc and hasn't been commercialized in any way. The spinout involves no student-written code. Hope that helps.

More details on this publicly very soon!

Yes! Definitely willing to sponsor. I wouldn't be in the US unless Udacity was willing to do so.

We're hiring for machine learning & robotics engineers. We like pre-mapping and LIDAR, and we like machine learning and cameras. We're focussed on the Bay Area right now, mainly since our team is so small.

I will be staying on as an advisor to Udacity, primarily to help with the self-driving car curriculum!

Great question! I think the biggest help would be statistical significance. We (as in the tech community) realize that machines can exceed humans in efficiency and safety, but the data that this is unarguably true does not yet exist. Waymo drives 1 million miles per year, but this is obviously dwarfed by humans driving.

A self-driving car company needs to be doing hundreds of millions of physical miles in order to quieten these fears, and it's only a matter of time before this is happening. This is one of the reason I think autonomous taxis are the perfect vehicle (pun intended) to bring autonomy to the world, since the business gets stronger the more miles you do.

We've been building an open source self-driving car alongside providing an amazing self-driving car curriculum. We've found that the two equate to one of the best educational experiences on the planet!

Thanks Ariel! We will definitely be contributing open source. It may not be a total open source self-driving car, but we will be very active.

Hello all! CEO of Voyage and former YC founder here. Would love to answer any questions I can about autonomous taxis. I'm obviously very passionate about the area. It feels like dev time is only accelerating (vs. linear progression), so I believe we'll see self-driving cars much faster than the skeptics think.

We're also hiring. I don't care about your credential, just that you love robotics or machine learning. Ping me! jobs@voyage.auto.

This is all new material!

~80% focusses on TensorFlow, but we are working on Keras content in other Nanodegrees!

In the same spirit: my name is Oliver and I lead the Udacity open source self-driving car project! AMA, or email me at oliver@udacity.com. I love all things AVs and deep learning!

MIT! https://github.com/udacity/self-driving-car/blob/master/Lice...

We have much, much more coming soon, in addition to LIDAR/radar data. You can join in with the fun here: https://udacity.com/self-driving-car

It's worth pointing out some other awesome datasets, such as:

• http://research.comma.ai

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

• http://data.selfracingcars.com

Any questions I can answer?

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

Could you go into a little more detail here? Thanks!

We optimize our curriculum for those who are unable to spend all of their time on education. 10hrs/week is our recommended amount of learning.

Thank you, and great thoughts! I think we'd surprise you on our growth, but costs have also decreased a fair amount in the past 4-5 years.