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About the Course

Welcome to Introduction to Self-Driving Cars, the first course in University of Toronto’s Self-Driving Cars Specialization. This course will introduce you to the terminology, design considerations and safety assessment of self-driving cars. By the end of this course, you will be able to: - Understand commonly used hardware used for self-driving cars - Identify the main components of the self-driving software stack - Program vehicle modelling and control - Analyze the safety frameworks and current industry practices for vehicle development For the final project in this course, you will develop control code to navigate a self-driving car around a racetrack in the CARLA simulation environment. You will construct longitudinal and lateral dynamic models for a vehicle and create controllers that regulate speed and path tracking performance using Python. You’ll test the limits of your control design and learn the challenges inherent in driving at the limit of vehicle performance. This is an advanced course, intended for learners with a background in mechanical engineering, computer and electrical engineering, or robotics. To succeed in this course, you should have programming experience in Python 3.0, familiarity with Linear Algebra (matrices, vectors, matrix multiplication, rank, Eigenvalues and vectors and inverses), Statistics (Gaussian probability distributions), Calculus and Physics (forces, moments, inertia, Newton's Laws). You will also need certain hardware and software specifications in order to effectively run the CARLA simulator: Windows 7 64-bit (or later) or Ubuntu 16.04 (or later), Quad-core Intel or AMD processor (2.5 GHz or faster), NVIDIA GeForce 470 GTX or AMD Radeon 6870 HD series card or higher, 8 GB RAM, and OpenGL 3 or greater (for Linux computers)....

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PS

Jul 29, 2021

This is a great course and also a demanding course for future of automobile industry. This course teachs me a lot about the control system of the car which is used in the autonomous control unit.

AP

Jul 27, 2020

This introduction course really helped me recalling all my basic learning. Really appreciate the Professor. It will definitely help me for enhancing my skills in the field of autonomous driving.

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By Amit C

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Dec 28, 2019

Course is good if you want to start in Self-driving cars Industry. This is an advanced course so please learn about objected oriented programming in Python language. You will learn a lot while going through extra-readings. The only thing which troubled me is programming part and unavailability of some of articles for free.

keep exploring the new scenarios in Carla simulator .

By Tushar G

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Aug 8, 2019

The knowledge and level of this introductory course was spot on. However, there could have been better explanations pertaining to the final project. Specifically the implementation of longitudinal and lateral controller. The explanations although intuitive were not very practical and many key concepts had been kept at bay from the user.

By Dane R

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Jun 21, 2020

Overall a nice introduction, however, I did notice some minor errors in the drawings used in the slides. I also felt that some quiz questions were intentionally tricky/nuanced, which did accomplish the goal of making me review the lesson materials carefully, but on some I still had to guess even after quite careful review.

By Daniel Y

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May 7, 2020

Very good introduction to several important aspects of developing ADAS and autonomous vehicle functions. The programming exercises in Python were easy to follow but interesting. Only the graded quizzes needs a bit of polishing (some unclear instructions, you need to check the forum to be able to solve all of them)

By Kevin M

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Apr 6, 2019

The lectures were a bit hard to follow (can't read the text and listen to the speaker at the same time). Especially the programming assignments were not extremely well documented, making it a bit hard to come up with correct formulas here and there. But it is entirely possible.

But all in all good quality course.

By Phyu P K

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Sep 18, 2020

The course is a career-skills booster for engineering students like us. The advice from people working in the industries are also included in addition to the course content, which is very helpful. It would be better if there are detailed tutorials and help for the assignments given.

By Nitesh h

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May 26, 2020

is it very tough if you don't hai proper knowledge of mechanical engineering then you should not take this course, and if you don't know about PID controllers and object based programming then also you should not take this course

although a very introductory course in this subject

By Sam B

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May 9, 2020

Assignments are based on trial and error to finding solutions which was the only drawback I felt significantly. If one puts their brains and do a lot of extra reading(supplementary material) along with the course, you can get a broad knowledge of what self driving technology

By Shibo z

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Sep 28, 2020

Very well learning material. Two aspects need to be improved:

1. Professor should give more questions during teaching concepts and speak slower.

2. Programming materials need to be better documented, it is not friendly for learners with little programming skill

By Artem P

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Aug 30, 2019

It is good course, but for me structure of the course wasn't the best.

Last week and the assignment was great, but for me it was more useful if i start to code earlier. I don't understand the importance of some information from the lections until the last week.

By Prashanth M

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May 18, 2019

This is really an advanced course and you would be required to have good skillset in python and deriving at the control equations. Nevertheless, its an excellent course and provide you with basic fundamentals for design and architecture of self-driving cars

By pouriya m

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Aug 27, 2023

Great Opportunity to get familiar with the autonomous systems. but one drawback is the hardness of installation and the related problems, instead of thinking about possible answers, students face several problems while installing the requirements

By ROHITH K R K

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Aug 16, 2020

this is a good course only if you know basic mathematics and python programming. apart from this it shows only theoretical programs but in this first course it doesnt explain any hardware of the cars and real world application

By Mohamed I A

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Jun 30, 2019

the course materials presented here is very organized and well developed, they prepare you well both theoretical and practical through out assignments . Ionly hope they focus on students help through out discussion board.

By monisha g

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Jul 19, 2020

Interesting course. Its a good start for someone interested in and relatively new to self-driving vehicles. Towards the end, it focuses majorly on controllers - in the last few weeks and in the final assignment as well.

By Kishore R

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Apr 1, 2022

The course is informative and well constructed for interdisciplinary learners. Usage of CARLA Software was exciting and the final project on designing the control of self driving was unique learning experience.

By Kale K A P

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Aug 1, 2020

coursera is a great platform to lear things which are very helpful in our career . and this self driving cars facinates me how great work of math behing the working of level 5 anotomy vehicles

By Ahmed G Y

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May 18, 2020

Such an amazing course to introduce a technological revolution that will be a breakthrough in our world! Of course, there is some challenge to finish the course and expect some difficulties.

By Guruprasad M H

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Apr 9, 2019

The programming exercise needs a little more introductory . For someone new its very difficult to follow and adapt and meet the deadlines. This could potentially be demotivating

By Swapnil P K

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Jun 25, 2020

This Course is very useful .The lectures are well paced and the hands on coding exercises spread throughout the course make sure that you imbibe what is taught in the lectures.

By Yajur K

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Feb 17, 2024

It's a very informative specialization along with informative, helpful content taught by good professors, it also enhances your skills and makes you a knowledgeable person.

By Deleted A

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Jul 28, 2020

The course content was really good and it helped me to dive into the world of self driving cars. Programming Assignments helped me implement what I learnt during the course

By Vikhyat k

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Dec 29, 2019

Course was quite well structured but if Professor could include more live examples it would be quite helful for learning.Thanks again i learnt a lot from this course.

By Li Y

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Jul 4, 2020

This course gives me a first impression of self-driving cars, e.g. texonomy, safety, control and so on. From those experiences, you take a huge step into this field.

By Gadiraju S V

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Jun 27, 2020

At first it is difficult for me but just working on some formulas really helped me to concentrate.The Jupiter notebooks need to have some good guidelines.