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Information about the Udacity open source self-driving car project

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Self-Driving Car

##We’re Building an Open Source Self-Driving Car ####And we want your help!

At Udacity, we believe in democratizing education. How can we provide opportunity to everyone on the planet? We also believe in teaching really amazing and useful subject matter. When we decided to build the Self-Driving Car Nanodegree program, to teach the world to build autonomous vehicles, we instantly knew we had to tackle our own self-driving car too.

Together with Google Self-Driving Car founder and Udacity President Sebastian Thrun, we formed our core Self-Driving Car Team. One of the first decisions we made? Open source code, written by hundreds of students from across the globe!

You can read more about our plans for this project.

How to Contribute

First, some important places to join:

Like any open source project, this code base will require a certain amount of thoughtfulness. However, when you add a 2-ton vehicle into the equation, we also need to make safety our absolute top priority, and pull requests just don’t cut it. To really optimize for safety, we’re breaking down the problem of making the car autonomous into Udacity Challenges.

Challenges

Each challenge will contain awesome prizes (cash and others) for the most effective contributions, but more importantly, the challenge format enables us to benchmark the safety of the code before we ever think of running it in the car. We believe challenges to be the best medium for us to build a Level-4 autonomous vehicle, while at the same time offering our contributors a valuable and exciting learning experience.

You can find a current list of challenges, with lots of information, on the Udacity self-driving car page. This is the primary way to contribute to this open source self-driving car project.

Datasets

####Driving Data

Date Lighting Conditions Duration Compressed Size Uncompressed Direct Download Torrent MD5
9/29/2016 Sunny 12:40 25G 40G HTTP Torrent 33a10f7835068eeb29b2a3274c216e7d
10/3/2016 Overcast 58:53 124G 183G HTTP Torrent 34362e7d997476ed972d475b93b876f3

####Isolated and Trimmed Driving Data With the help of Auro Robotics, compression, and selective recording, we now have considerably smaller datasets that will be available shortly. You can find instructions for these datasets, when available, in the /datasets/udacity_launch readme.

Contributions

Here's a list of the projects we've open sourced from crowdsourced contributions:

  • Camera Mount by @spartanhaden – A mount to support a lens and camera body that can be mounted using standard GoPro hardware
  • More to come!

Core Contributors

@ericrgon
@macjshiggins
@olivercameron

Open Source Base Software Support

Autoware