[self-driving-car] links and resources

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General Nanodegree Information
Nanodegrees Programs: https://www.udacity.com/nanodegree
Nanodegree Plus (job guarantee): https://www.udacity.com/nanodegree/plus 
UConnect (weekly in-person study sessions):  https://www.udacity.com/uconnect 

Courses on Udacity
Machine Learning Engineer Nanodegree by Google (Currently Available): https://www.udacity.com/course/machine-learning-engineer-nanodegree-by-google--nd009
Artificial Intelligence for Robots (Free Course) https://www.udacity.com/course/artificial-intelligence-for-robotics--cs373
Intro to Statistics (Free Course) https://www.udacity.com/course/intro-to-statistics--st101
Deep Learning (Free Course) https://www.udacity.com/course/deep-learning--ud730
Programming Foundations with Python (Free Course) https://www.udacity.com/course/programming-foundations-with-python--ud036 
Introduction to Computer Vision: https://www.udacity.com/course/introduction-to-computer-vision--ud810


Cool topics for self driving car course should cover: 
Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Vehicle Dynamics, Controllers, Localization, Mapping (SLAM), Sensors & Fusion

Reading Resources
Udacity
https://medium.com/udacity/self-driving-car-employers-f24c0013cf1d#.3jlgb1c1i 
https://www.quora.com/Are-Udacity-Nanodegrees-worth-it-for-finding-a-job
http://blog.udacity.com/2015/03/udacity-nanodegree-reviews-your-questions-answered.html
http://blog.udacity.com/2015/03/udacity-nanodegree-reviews-your-questions-answered.html

News / Resources
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-36952252
https://techcrunch.com/2016/03/11/gm-buys-self-driving-tech-startup-cruise-as-part-of-a-plan-to-make-driverless-cars/
http://money.cnn.com/2016/04/04/technology/george-hotz-comma-ai-andreessen-horowitz/
https://techcrunch.com/2016/06/30/zoox-raises-200-million-at-1-billion-valuation-for-its-self-driving-cars/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQmOpxEvpvI
http://images.nvidia.com/content/tegra/automotive/images/2016/solutions/pdf/end-to-end-dl-using-px.pdf
https://www.cbinsights.com/blog/autonomous-driverless-vehicles-corporations-list/ 
http://www.theverge.com/2016/6/6/11866868/comma-ai-george-hotz-interview-self-driving-cars
Trucking Industry: http://ot.to/
Racing Industry: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2016/06/03/autonomous-vehicles/

Open Source Projects
https://www.reddit.com/r/SelfDrivingCars/comments/4vz3y7/commaai_for_the_people_to_experiment_with_too/

Datasets
https://www.cityscapes-dataset.com/
http://robotcar-dataset.robots.ox.ac.uk/examples/ 
http://selfracingcars.com/blog/2016/7/26/polysync
http://data.selfracingcars.com/

Other Resources
Stanford Convolutional Neural Networks for Visual Recognition http://cs231n.github.io/
Deep Learning Framework written in Swift to use on apple devices (written by @amund) http://deeplearningkit.org/
Image segmentation from comma.ai https://commaai.blogspot.de/2016/07/self-coloring-books.html?m=1

Hardware
Berkeley BARC
MIT Racecar
GeorgiaTech AutoRally