Udacity's 'flying car' engineering course starts next month
Flying cars have always been a goalpost of the future, but last year companies like Toyota , Airbus , DeLorean and Volvo's parent company invested in or announced plans to get their own units flying soon. If you wanted to get in on the ground floor of tomorrow's transportation, you might try joining the first class of 'flying car engineers' in a new nanodegree program at Udacity fronted by Sebastian Thrun, the former leader of Google's self-driving car program. Thrun has quite a pedigree as a founder of Udacity himself along with the Kitty Hawk prototype flying ' car ,' but the rest of the course's instructors are likewise impressive. They include MIT professor Nicholas Roy, founder of the Alphabet-backed Project Wing whose drones air-delivered burritos to Australians last October; Aerospace professor at University of Toronto Angela Schoellig; And lastly the founder of Kiva Systems (now Amazon Robotics), Raffaello D'Andrea. The course itself ...