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What? The 2004 and 2005 challenges participants were basically all university teams (i.e., the teams were students & professors who didn't need the prize money
by mdorazio 4y ago
What? The 2004 and 2005 challenges participants were basically all university teams (i.e., the teams were students & professors who didn't need the prize money in the first place). The participants in those teams then went on to leadership roles in the various self-driving startups, but they didn't start there.
- HWR_14 4y ago> the teams were students & professors who didn't need the prize money in the first place Weird to phrase it as "need". I look forward to your proposal for replacing supply and demand determine wages with ones based on number of dependents.
- zip1234 4y agoDoes pitting these teams directly against each other to achieve a specific purpose advance the field better than letting them do their normal research thing?
- lief79 4y agoIn this case, it made it clear what was possible with the currently available technology and some focus. That certainly drove more funding into self driving vehicles, as they no longer seemed like pure science fiction.
- melling 4y agoNot sure what argument is being made here. The DARPA Grand Challenge was an incredible success
- sidibe 4y agoI didn't suggest it was corporate teams. But I think it was the competitions that led these companies to start working on it when they did and caused the startups to spawn and get funding.