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Re: Ask HN: Self Driving Car Engineer Nanodegree

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Ha, it seems I mistakenly assumed there was a free version (other platform often offer free without signed certificates so you can follow along).

Maybe nano degrees are all paying ? If so then my bad, I hope some will get my seat (seems so).

Wish all the fun to students.

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Hi all, My name is Dhruv (dhruv@udacity.com) and I lead the Self-Driving Car Nanodegree program here at Udacity. I'm happy to answer questions directly on this note (email me!). I think this program will be very different from our existing Nanodegrees as we have real industry partners who are extremely invested in making sure the program is high quality from the get go. This is because they want to be able to increas…

Hi Dhruv, I got an email said the course start at the end of Nov, but when register I remember the post said it start around Oct, can you please clarify that? Thanks

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Hi all, My name is Dhruv (dhruv@udacity.com) and I lead the Self-Driving Car Nanodegree program here at Udacity. I'm happy to answer questions directly on this note (email me!). I think this program will be very different from our existing Nanodegrees as we have real industry partners who are extremely invested in making sure the program is high quality from the get go. This is because they want to be able to increas…

Hi Dhruv, I got an email said the course start at the end of Nov, but when register I remember the post said it start around Oct, can you please clarify that? Thanks

For mine, it says December 12.. I guess they have different terms? Dhruv, could you confirm?

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Hi all, My name is Dhruv (dhruv@udacity.com) and I lead the Self-Driving Car Nanodegree program here at Udacity. I'm happy to answer questions directly on this note (email me!). I think this program will be very different from our existing Nanodegrees as we have real industry partners who are extremely invested in making sure the program is high quality from the get go. This is because they want to be able to increas…

Hi Dhruv, I got an email said the course start at the end of Nov, but when register I remember the post said it start around Oct, can you please clarify that? Thanks

There are three cohorts at the beginning, 500 starts in October, 1500 in November, and 2500 in December. I'm at the November batch like you, paid the fee already.

Re: Ask HN: Self Driving Car Engineer Nanodegree

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi Dhruv, I got an email said the course start at the end of Nov, but when register I remember the post said it start around Oct, can you please clarify that? Thanks

For mine, it says December 12.. I guess they have different terms? Dhruv, could you confirm?

I recieved an email as well, however mine says January of 2017. I haven't seen anything about registering either.

Re: Ask HN: Self Driving Car Engineer Nanodegree

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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.

Re: Ask HN: Self Driving Car Engineer Nanodegree

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Hi all, My name is Dhruv (dhruv@udacity.com) and I lead the Self-Driving Car Nanodegree program here at Udacity. I'm happy to answer questions directly on this note (email me!). I think this program will be very different from our existing Nanodegrees as we have real industry partners who are extremely invested in making sure the program is high quality from the get go. This is because they want to be able to increas…

Hi Dhruv,

What percentage of students who complete the program would you expect to be able to get a job as a Self-Driving car engineer?

Re: Ask HN: Self Driving Car Engineer Nanodegree

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Hi all, My name is Dhruv (dhruv@udacity.com) and I lead the Self-Driving Car Nanodegree program here at Udacity. I'm happy to answer questions directly on this note (email me!). I think this program will be very different from our existing Nanodegrees as we have real industry partners who are extremely invested in making sure the program is high quality from the get go. This is because they want to be able to increas…

Hi Dhruv, are you able to speak a bit about the scholarships available for this nanodegree? I'm a current graduate student researching machine learning, so this course is right up my alley and interest but I have concerns about the cost ($2,400USD on a student income is... a lot). I just applied for the program because I saw that scholarships are available, but could not find much information other than that.

Re: Ask HN: Self Driving Car Engineer Nanodegree

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With self driving cars you need to address very different topics to make it happen. From the nanodegree program I'm expecting a comprehensive curriculum which touches the required theoretical background but pragmatic. Looking forward to start it at November.

In the long run my goal is to switch to this area, either as an employee or building a startup.

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