Ask HN: Self Driving Car Engineer Nanodegree • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Self Driving Car Engineer Nanodegree

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Post by GFischer » Wed, Oct 05, 2016, 8:25 PM UTC

ekline wrote: post #3

GFischer wrote: post #2

I haven't taken it, sounds interesting. I did read a comment from someone who took it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12518725 They're very light. Since they don't carry any weight you'd at least hope to learn something. You'll get as much if not more from the free machine learning Georgia tech course with Tom Mitchell's book than the nanodegree. As a follow up, I took Thruns robotic driving course and it…

That commenter hasn't taken the Self-Driving Car Nanodegree program, October is the 1st time this particular Nanodegree is being offered.

Good to know. Sorry about the mistake.

Re: Ask HN: Self Driving Car Engineer Nanodegree

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Post by logfromblammo » Wed, Oct 05, 2016, 8:34 PM UTC

By my calculations [0], one nanodegree is equivalent to approximately 0.0007 seconds of classroom instruction.

If you're going to create a self-driving car, please, please, please get at least a millidegree (~2 hours).

[0] ~120 credit-hours per B.S. degree * ~16 classroom hours per credit-hour * 360 seconds per hour * 10^-9 for nano- prefix

Re: Ask HN: Self Driving Car Engineer Nanodegree

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Post by pqhwan » Wed, Oct 05, 2016, 8:35 PM UTC

May be slightly off topic, but what's the time commitment like for this program? Are people with full time jobs expected to be able to take full benefit of it?

Re: Ask HN: Self Driving Car Engineer Nanodegree

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Post by denkasyanov » Wed, Oct 05, 2016, 9:18 PM UTC

wburgo9 wrote: post #16

ingenieroariel wrote: post #5

I got into the program too, read the curriculum and saw some of the material that will be shared. I went ahead and reserved my seat. The part that I like the most is the parallel effort to build an open source self driving car. My motivation is to build one in my small town in Colombia - with donkeys sharing the road it's going to be very interesting.

Where did you find the curriculum? I got in too, but can't find a released curriculum anywhere.

You can find info about first term here: https://medium.com/self-driving-cars/term-1-in-depth-on-udac...

Re: Ask HN: Self Driving Car Engineer Nanodegree

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Post by denkasyanov » Wed, Oct 05, 2016, 9:22 PM UTC

pqhwan wrote: post #23

May be slightly off topic, but what's the time commitment like for this program? Are people with full time jobs expected to be able to take full benefit of it?

Great question! It is designed to take about 10 hours per week so almost anyone can do it.

Re: Ask HN: Self Driving Car Engineer Nanodegree

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Post by phodo » Wed, Oct 05, 2016, 9:22 PM UTC

I was accepted but can't find the syllabus. Anyone have a link?

Re: Ask HN: Self Driving Car Engineer Nanodegree

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Post by denkasyanov » Wed, Oct 05, 2016, 9:23 PM UTC

phodo wrote: post #26

I was accepted but can't find the syllabus. Anyone have a link?

It's here: https://medium.com/self-driving-cars/term-1-in-depth-on-udac...

Re: Ask HN: Self Driving Car Engineer Nanodegree

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Post by babo » Wed, Oct 05, 2016, 9:25 PM UTC

pqhwan wrote: post #23

May be slightly off topic, but what's the time commitment like for this program? Are people with full time jobs expected to be able to take full benefit of it?

10 hours per week

Re: Ask HN: Self Driving Car Engineer Nanodegree

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Post by yid » Wed, Oct 05, 2016, 9:52 PM UTC

May I ask why this is a "nanodegree"? Is having this qualification likely to improve someone's chances of getting a self-driving engineering position in industry?

Re: Ask HN: Self Driving Car Engineer Nanodegree

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Post by zump » Wed, Oct 05, 2016, 10:04 PM UTC

Can anyone who works for a top SDC company (comma.ai, Zoox, Cruise, Uber/Otto, Tesla) comment whether they would consider an application from someone with a technical qualification plus this "nanodegree"? Throwaways acceptable, looking for a pragmatic insight from an industry insider.

There is a lot of PR speak clouding my judgement.