Self-driving & autonomous vehicles Videos Recommended on Hacker News (29)
Self-driving & autonomous vehicles is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 29 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2012 and 2026 — 82 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.
Autonomous vehicles: self-driving cars, Waymo, Tesla Autopilot and FSD, Cruise, robotaxis, perception, lidar, safety and crashes, autonomous trucks, regulation.
Why HN keeps sending people here — on How Self-Driving Cars will Destroy Cities (and what to do about it): “It's long, but well worth an hour of your time.” — an HN commenter, 2024.
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12 mo on HNHow Self-Driving Cars will Destroy Cities (and what to do about it)
7 mo on HNGoogle Self-Driving Car Project | SXSW Interactive 2016
6 mo on HNAndrej Karpathy - AI for Full-Self Driving at Tesla
5 mo on HNGeorge Hotz: Comma.ai, OpenPilot, and Autonomous Vehicles | Lex Fridman Podcast #31
6 mo on HNTraffic Has a Perfect Solution. Humans Are the Problem.
4 mo on HNGeorge Hotz: Hacking the Simulation & Learning to Drive with Neural Nets | Lex Fridman Podcast #132
3 mo on HNai.bythebay.io: George Hotz, Self-Driving Lessons from Comma AI
3 mo on HNAndrej Karpathy: Tesla AI, Self-Driving, Optimus, Aliens, and AGI | Lex Fridman Podcast #333
3 mo on HN[CVPR'21 WAD] Keynote - Andrej Karpathy, Tesla
3 mo on HNVeritasium: A Story of YouTube Propaganda
3 mo on HNTesla Autonomy Day
2 mo on HNSacha Arnoud, Director of Engineering, Waymo - MIT Self-Driving Cars
2 mo on HNTesla AI Day 2022
2 mo on HNHow Google's Self-Driving Car Works
2 mo on HNCan You Fool A Self Driving Car?
1 mo on HNAutonomous Car - what goes into sensing for autonomous driving?
1 mo on HNTV journalist documents wild ride inside Waymo self-driving car in San Francisco
1 mo on HNTesla Self Driving vs Everyday Roads!
1 mo on HNYandex Self-Driving Car. Moscow streets after a heavy snowfall
1 mo on HNdrive.ai Rainy Night Autonomous Drive
1 mo on HNElon Musk on Cameras vs LiDAR for Self Driving and Autonomous Cars
1 mo on HNAndrej Karpathy (Tesla): CVPR 2021 (see description for better quality version)
1 mo on HN[FSD Beta 8.2] Oakland - Close Calls, Pedestrians, Bicycles!
1 mo on HNElon Musk: Tesla Autopilot | Lex Fridman Podcast #18
1 mo on HNNo Priors Ep. 80 | With Andrej Karpathy from OpenAI and Tesla
1 mo on HNRiding in a Self Driving Car - With Nobody Up Front | JJRicks Rides With Waymo #1
1 mo on HNChris Urmson: How a driverless car sees the road
1 mo on HNFull Self-Driving
1 mo on HNTesla Autopilot Crashes into Motorcycle Riders - Why?
Also discussed on Hacker News (40)
Mentioned in HN threads about self-driving & autonomous vehicles, though never formally recommended:
Tesla AI Day 2021 · Self-Parking cars Tesla v Audi v Ford v BMW - test and comparison - are they any good? · Waymo AI Driverless Car Goes Rogue: Blocks Traffic, Evades Capture | JJRicks Rides With Waymo #54 · This is what may have happened in the recent Tesla Autopilot Crash · OpenPilot - Self Driving 100 Miles Hands Free · Why You Should Want Driverless Cars On Roads Now · Tesla Model S adaptive cruise control crashes into Van · FSDBeta 8.2 - 2021.4.11.1 - 4K Drone View of Unprotected Left Turns with Forward Facing Traffic · Tesla crashes into concrete barrier....ON AUTO PILOT! · Tesla Autopilot Failing (No Warnings) Where There Was A Fatal Car Accident W Model X · Tesla Crashes on Full Self Driving (FSD) BETA · Waymo 360° Experience: A Fully Autonomous Driving Journey · ULTIMATE ANTI CRASH - Fifth Gear · Tesla Autopilot 17.7.2 Fails · Dickmann's autonomous cars, 1980s · Autonomous Intersection Management: Traffic Control for the Future · Elon Musk: SpaceX, Mars, Tesla Autopilot, Self-Driving, Robotics, and AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #252 · Ernst Dickmanns’ VaMoRs Mercedes Van, 1986-2003 · Introducing the self-driving bicycle in the Netherlands · Self-Driving Car Test: Steve Mahan · Tesla crashes into child dummy as auto-break test fails · Waymo car crashes into pole · Mercedes S Class Active Lane Assist Hack · Tesla Model 3 crashes into overturned truck on highway · Waymo's autonomous driving technology navigates a police controlled intersection · Automated cars from Minority Report · The Best FSD System In China! 1 Hour Drive Using Huawei Qiankun ADS 3.2 Installed In Avatr 11 · Waymo's fully autonomous driving technology is here · Anthony Levandowski on lessons learned at TC Sessions: Robotics+AI · We Followed a Waymo Self-driving Car for Miles, Here's What we Saw · Mill Ave at Night · Tesla Unveils Dual Motor and Autopilot · Autonomous Car Learns To Powerslide Into Parking Spot · India Driving · AutoX Fully Driverless RoboTaxi in Urban Villages #AutoXRoboTaxi · Volvo auto brake system fail? · Insane Volvo brake test epic fail · Google Self-Driving Car on City Streets · NavLab 1 (1986) : Carnegie Mellon : Robotics Institute History of Self-Driving Cars · Elon Musk's Broken Promises