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by ericlavigne 3563 days ago
"Does Udacity have any technical talent that would even be relevant to this? (I'm betting they don't have any computer vision experts.)"

Sebastian Thrun is a cofounder of Udacity, and one of the world's top experts in self-driving cars. Sebastian Thru won 1st place in the DARPA Grand Challenge in which self-driving cars raced across the Mojave desert. He is also a VP at Google, where he has worked on Google's self-driving car technology. One of the first courses at Udacity was called "Artificial Intelligence for Robotics."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebastian_Thrun