Sebastian Thrun: Flying Cars, Autonomous Vehicles, and Education

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Lex Fridman

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4.7 • 13K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2019

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Sebastian Thrun is one of the greatest roboticists, computer scientists, and educators of our time. He led development of the autonomous vehicles at Stanford that won the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge and placed second in the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge. He then led the Google self-driving car program which launched the self-driving revolution. He taught the popular Stanford course on Artificial Intelligence in 2011 which was one of the first MOOCs. That experience led him to co-found Udacity, an online education platform. He is also the CEO of Kitty Hawk, a company working on building flying cars or more technically

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0:00.0	The following is a conversation with Sebastian Throon.
0:03.4	He's one of the greatest roboticists, computer scientists,
0:06.1	and educators of our time.
0:08.0	He led the development of the autonomous vehicles
0:10.5	of Stanford that won the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge
0:14.2	and placed second in the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge.
0:18.1	He then led the Google Self-Driving Car Program,
0:20.9	which launched the Self-Driving Car Revolution.
0:24.5	He taught the popular Stanford course
0:26.4	on artificial intelligence in 2011,
0:29.1	which is one of the first massive open online courses
0:32.4	or MOOCs, as they're commonly called.
0:35.0	That experience led him to co-found Udacity,
0:37.6	an online education platform.
0:39.8	If you haven't taken courses on it yet,
0:41.6	I highly recommended.
0:43.3	Their Self-Driving Car Program, for example, is excellent.
0:47.1	He's also the CEO of Kitty Hawk,
0:49.8	a company working on building flying cars,
0:53.0	or more technically EV stalls,
0:54.9	which stands for electric vertical take-off
0:56.9	and landing aircraft.
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