Impact of the DARPA Grand Challenge reverberates 20 years later

Shift: A podcast about mobility

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4.8 • 31 Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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March 13 marks the 20-year anniversary of the inaugural DARPA Grand Challenge race which catalyzed interest in self-driving technology. DARPA director Tony Tether, Carnegie Mellon University’s Red Whittaker, Waymo’s Melissa Dumas Grimm and Pronto’s Anthony Levandowski offer reflections on that race and how it steered the course of automated-driving development.

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0:15.9	Hi everybody.
0:22.2	Welcome to Shift, a podcast about mobility.
0:24.4	I'm Pete Bigelow, your host, and reporter of the Automotive News.
0:27.6	We've got a special edition of Shift for you today.
0:30.8	This coming Wednesday, March 13th, marks the 20th anniversary of the inaugural
0:35.8	DARPA Grand Challenge, which was the first formative step in the modern day push to develop
0:41.2	self-driving cars. With the help of my
0:43.9	colleague and shift podcast producer Jake Nere, we're going to tell you the story of
0:47.9	that first DARPA competition, along with reflections from then DARPA
0:52.2	Director Tony Tether,
0:54.0	Weymos Melissa Dumas Grimm, Carnegie Mellon University professor and
0:58.6	Red team leader Red Whitaker,
1:00.8	and last but not least, Pronto's Anthony Lewandowski.
1:05.2	We have their DARPA stories for you shortly, but first, my colleague Hannah Lutz joins me now
1:10.8	for a quick look at this week's headlines.
1:12.6	Hannah, how are you today?
1:13.6	Hi Pete, doing well, how are you?
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