Camera-Only Autonomous Drive Through the Pyrenees: Lessons From a Small PhD Team
abursuc · x · 2026-09-18
The author shares a test video of driving autonomously in the Catalan Pyrenees using only camera sensing on a budget. The follow-up notes the team started with modular architectures but found them painful to assemble and update, and that the whole effort was carried out by a handful of PhDs, postdocs and engineers, with vintage field-testing footage included.
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