Arm autonomous vehicle hack, Seattle
A hands-on autonomous vehicle build and race in Seattle. Developers trained models on small Arm-powered cars and ran them against a taped course.
Numbers
- 220
- Developers
Problem
Autonomous driving is unapproachable. The real thing is a research budget and a closed course, so a developer curious about it has nowhere to start and nothing to fail safely on.
Solution
A hands-on build and race in Seattle. Developers trained models on small Arm-powered cars and ran them against a taped course.
Analysis
The format shrinks autonomous driving until one person can hold the whole loop in their head in an afternoon. Train, run, crash, adjust, run again, with a car small enough that crashing costs nothing.
Ending on a race is what kept people iterating. Without it most teams stop at their first clean lap.
Result
220 developers.
Photos
The course. Lane lines, cones and four cars learning to stay between them.