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Udacity Opens Nanodegree Program For Self-Driving Car Engineers

Are you interested in developing self-driving cars? Well, here is your chance.
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Udacity has announced it has begun offering the first and only program that trains students to become engineers in the field of autonomous cars.

There is no other course like this on the market so those at Udacity could have asked for serious money from its potential clients. Instead, the whole Nanodegree program will consist of three terms of 12 weeks each, and each term costs $800.

A student will have nine months of intensive study ahead, and the terms must be paid in advance. Students who qualify can get a scholarship from Udacity, if they prove finances are a problem, but skill and learning abilities are not.

Among the topics focused by the Nanodegree project are deep learning, vehicle kinematics, automotive hardware, sensor fusion, controllers, and computer vision.

At the end of the course, students will have had the opportunity to write and run code on an actual autonomous vehicle. On top of that experience, they will get the chance to learn from the best companies in the field. If the expert instructors notice particular talent, exclusive hiring opportunities may arise.

Udacity is a project that was born from an experiment started at Stanford University. Initially, Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig offered their “Introduction to Artificial Intelligence” course online to anyone who asked, and it was free. After 160,000 students from over 190 countries, Udacity was born.

The inspiring story of this company and its Nanodegree programs could lead to a career in the development of self-driving cars. While those that are eligible never dreamed of designing a driverless car, we are confident some kids dreamt of working for a car company. Some of us certainly have, but we admit that autonomous vehicles were not on the list.

Since we have chosen a different career path and have no knowledge of Python programming or Machine Learning, we cannot apply. If you are amongst those that have experience in the two fields mentioned above, as well as Probability and Statistics, you have a shot of grabbing one of the 250 spots available in the first phase.
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About the author: Sebastian Toma
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Sebastian's love for cars began at a young age. Little did he know that a career would emerge from this passion (and that it would not, sadly, involve being a professional racecar driver). In over fourteen years, he got behind the wheel of several hundred vehicles and in the offices of the most important car publications in his homeland.
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