I would also recommend anything by Sebastian Thrun on the topic of autonomous cars. His Udacity course is a great starting point, and it inspired me to do my gr

I would also recommend anything by Sebastian Thrun on the topic of autonomous cars. His Udacity course is a great starting point, and it inspired me to do my graduate thesis on an autonomous car simulation. If anyone is looking to get a little deeper, check out some of his literature during his time at Stanford: http://robots.stanford.edu/papers/junior08.pdf http://robots.stanford.edu/papers/junior08.pdf http://www.lcad.inf.ufes.br/wiki/images/7/7f/2010_-_Dolgov_et_al._-_Path_Planning_for_Autonomous_Vehicles_in_Unknown_Semi-structured_Environments.pdf http://www.lcad.inf.ufes.br/wiki/images/7/7f/2010_-_Dolgov_e... http://ai.stanford.edu/~ddolgov/papers/dolgov_gpp_stair08.pdf http://ai.stanford.edu/~ddolgov/papers/dolgov_gpp_stair08.pd... Also, if anyone is interested, my thesis: https://github.com/mattbradley/AutonomousCar https://github.com/mattbradley/AutonomousCar