Udacity spins out its self-driving car business as Voyage

Hello all! CEO of Voyage and former YC founder here. Would love to answer any questions I can about autonomous taxis. I&#x27;m obviously very passionate about the area. It feels like dev time is only accelerating (vs. linear progression), so I believe we&#x27;ll see self-driving cars much faster than the skeptics think.<p>We&#x27;re also hiring. I don&#x27;t care about your credential, just that you love robotics or machine learning. Ping me! jobs@voyage.auto.

I&#x27;m sorry, Udacity the MOOC company has a self-driving car business?<p>...news to me.

I think this is really exciting news Oliver.<p>Will there be an employment link up between Voyager and the self-driving car nanodegree? And do you think it&#x27;s likely that other spin offs will occur from Udacity related to other courses?<p>I work in higher education and I&#x27;m incredibly grateful for how Udacity are opening the eyes of my more traditional colleagues as to how learning can be different, relevant and exciting.<p>Thanks and Good luck.

Should we be expecting some autonomous efforts from Snap Inc. at last in the near future?

Congratulations with the company, Oliver! I wish an infinite success! (:<p>Is Voyage willing to sponsor visas for future employees? Are there junior positions available for new grads?<p>Thank you!

Google cache in case page is down:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;webcache.googleusercontent.com&#x2F;search?q=cache:z7UZzBDGLqMJ:https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;04&#x2F;05&#x2F;udacity-spin-out-voyage-aims-to-build-a-full-self-driving-taxi-business&#x2F;+&amp;cd=3&amp;hl=en&amp;ct=clnk&amp;gl=us" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;webcache.googleusercontent.com&#x2F;search?q=cache:z7UZzB...</a>

Heh, good timing: I hear Uber might need to start their self-driving car project from square one soon. They might be willing to do a fast deal.

companies pay huge money to hire self-driving car engineers, or to train them to become one.<p>that&#x27;s old skool.<p>Udacity provides nanodegree program to train you at your cost, $2,400 for the full program (9mo)! at least now you know you might get hired!<p>&#x2F;s<p>EDIT: link <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.udacity.com&#x2F;drive&#x2F;faq" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.udacity.com&#x2F;drive&#x2F;faq</a>

I&#x27;m currently enrolled in Udacity&#x27;s self-driving car nanodegree, I can certainly say that the program thus far has been very fun and good at conveying knowledge. They&#x27;ve developed a curriculum that has a great cadence that keeps you moving forward, and the content is super interesting.

Congratulations to the team involved! In particular Oliver, Eric and Mac.<p>As a CarND student who enrolled because of the Open Source aspect I&#x27;d love to know if Voyage is planning to contribute open source software like Comma.ai and Polysync.

Does Udacity have any plan to expand outside USA and in other ventures? Like Bangalore maybe? I am an AIND student.

Can the billions being invested in this space earn an economic profit? It seems to me that multiple companies will be able to bring this technology to market in roughly the same timespan and that number will increase rapidly with time, driving commodification.

Reminds me of the time when failing mattress companies had a dail-up ISP vertical.