Episode 0035: Autopilots Documentary And The 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge
Autopilots - The Untold Story of the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge
In this special 20-year retrospective edition of DRIVEN, host Paul Perrone revisits the legendary 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge, the event that launched the modern era of autonomous vehicles.
Paul shares the inside story of his early days and how his small, self-funded Virginia team built a fully autonomous dune buggy named Tommy, and participated in events that became part of history.
This episode also explores the making of Autopilots, the documentary that captured the journey, from sleepless nights and road trips to the philosophical questions of AI, the Singularity, and the origins of modern self-driving technology.
Watch as Paul reflects on the early days of applied AI for autonomous vehicles and how DARPA’s bold experiment ignited a movement that continues to shape the world two decades later.
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