Apollo – An open autonomous driving platform

Interesting, surprised that this isn't submitted yet. This is the project by Baidu. Thanks OP!

These open source driving platforms are an interesting way to test out the limits of liability disclaimers on software. This license has:

   8. Limitation of Liability. In no event and under no legal theory,
      whether in tort (including negligence), contract, or otherwise,
      unless required by applicable law (such as deliberate and grossly
      negligent acts) or agreed to in writing, shall any Contributor be
      liable to You for damages, including any direct, indirect, special,
      incidental, or consequential damages of any character arising as a
      result of this License or out of the use or inability to use the
      Work (including but not limited to damages for loss of goodwill,
      work stoppage, computer failure or malfunction, or any and all
      other commercial damages or losses), even if such Contributor
      has been advised of the possibility of such damages.

Awesome. Now to just get a couple LIDAR cameras...

The exact same can be said about human drivers. Why do we demand that autonomous driving is 100% safe? I would be completely fine with autonomous cars that sometimes crash, but are still less likely to do so than with human drivers.

The list of partners looks quite interesting, including Ford, Bosch and Delphi.

It is apparently based on ROS like Autoware.