Self-driving & Autonomous Vehicles Videos Hacker News Recommends
Self-driving & autonomous vehicles videos on HackerTube: the talks, lectures and explainers Hacker News commenters keep sharing, covering self-driving cars, Waymo, Tesla Autopilot and FSD, Cruise, robotaxis, perception, lidar, safety and crashes, autonomous trucks, regulation.
26 videos · ranked by HN recommendations
Most recommended self-driving & autonomous vehicles videos
The ones HN returns to most often when a thread turns to this topic.
commentary#46How Self-Driving Cars will Destroy Cities (and what to do about it)
Not Just Bikes
“It's long, but well worth an hour of your time.”
17 HN recommenders · 2024–2026
talk#352Google Self-Driving Car Project | SXSW Interactive 2016
SXSW
“It's one of the best talks on the subject.”
2 HN recommenders · 2016–2018
talk#417Andrej Karpathy - AI for Full-Self Driving at Tesla
Matroid
“I highly recommend watching head of AI at Tesla Andrej Karpathy's talk on their self driving architecture.”
4 HN recommenders · 2020–2022
podcast#591George Hotz: Comma.ai, OpenPilot, and Autonomous Vehicles | Lex Fridman Podcast #31
Lex Fridman
“I strongly recommend Lex Firdman’s recent interview with George Hotz”
7 HN recommenders · 2019–2026
explainer#678Traffic Has a Perfect Solution. Humans Are the Problem.
CGP Grey
“CGP Grey did a really nice, concise video on the topic of traffic”
6 HN recommenders · 2016–2026
podcast#1110George Hotz: Hacking the Simulation & Learning to Drive with Neural Nets | Lex Fridman Podcast #132
Lex Fridman
“Lots of topics covered: self-driving, immortality, UFOs, cryptocurrencies, Tesla/Waymo/OpenAI, GTP-3, AI, book recommendations.”
6 HN recommenders · 2020–2026
talk#1601ai.bythebay.io: George Hotz, Self-Driving Lessons from Comma AI
FunctionalTV
“George Hotz has a killer talk about why the general approach to autonomous vehicles is flawed. I highly recommend it.”
3 HN recommenders · 2018–2021
podcast#1713Andrej Karpathy: Tesla AI, Self-Driving, Optimus, Aliens, and AGI | Lex Fridman Podcast #333
Lex Fridman
“Anyone seriously interested in this question should listen to the Lex Friedman interview of Andrej Karpathy”
3 HN recommenders · 2022–2025
talk#1744[CVPR'21 WAD] Keynote - Andrej Karpathy, Tesla
WAD at CVPR
“This talk was worth watching (any Karpathy or Carmack talk is imo)”
4 HN recommenders · 2021–2023
commentary#1976Veritasium: A Story of YouTube Propaganda
Tom Nicholas
“Tom Nicholas did a good job breaking down the problems with it”
3 HN recommenders · 2021–2023
talk#2109Tesla Autonomy Day
Tesla
“Watch the presentation from 6 months ago, where they explain the decision to build their own hardware for inferring”
3 HN recommenders · 2019–2024
lecture#2459Sacha Arnoud, Director of Engineering, Waymo - MIT Self-Driving Cars
Lex Fridman
“Check the lecture, its fantastic imo.”
3 HN recommenders · 2018–2023
talk#2476Tesla AI Day 2022
Tesla
“Learning about their engineering in that regard really changed my perception of the likelihood that they could solve the problem. Give it a watch”
2 HN recommenders · 2022–2026
talk#2544How Google's Self-Driving Car Works
IEEE Spectrum
“The whole talk is awesome and a presentation for an actual technical audience, too.”
2 HN recommenders · 2012–2016
demo#2968Can You Fool A Self Driving Car?
Mark Rober
“LiDAR passed all of them, while Tesla’s camera-only approach failed half.”
2 HN recommenders · 2025–2026
talk#3587Autonomous Car - what goes into sensing for autonomous driving?
Mobileye
“Here is a great, very accessible video where the CTO of MobileEye”
1 HN recommenders · 2016
demo#3895Tesla Self Driving vs Everyday Roads!
Marques Brownlee
“this MKBHD video from a few days ago was a fair appraisal of the current state of FSD”
1 HN recommenders · 2022–2023
demo#3935Yandex Self-Driving Car. Moscow streets after a heavy snowfall
Яндекс Go
“This video of a car navigating a snowy Moscow street is especially impressive [0].”
1 HN recommenders · 2018
demo#4014drive.ai Rainy Night Autonomous Drive
drive.ai
“Here's Drive.ai demoing L4 in a downpour at night (really impressive)”
1 HN recommenders · 2017
talk#4026Elon Musk on Cameras vs LiDAR for Self Driving and Autonomous Cars
AutoPilot Review
“I think Elon Musk makes some good points why Lidar”
1 HN recommenders · 2020–2024
talk#4123Andrej Karpathy (Tesla): CVPR 2021 (see description for better quality version)
YarrowFlower
“it's quite long, but the whole thing is quite interesting”
1 HN recommenders · 2021–2022
interview#4409Elon Musk: Tesla Autopilot | Lex Fridman Podcast #18
Lex Fridman
1 HN recommenders · 2019–2025
podcast#4481No Priors Ep. 80 | With Andrej Karpathy from OpenAI and Tesla
No Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups
“he's talking for 5 minutes in detail about exactly why he believes Tesla is ahead of Waymo and will beat them to scale.”
1 HN recommenders · 2024–2025
demo#4684Riding in a Self Driving Car - With Nobody Up Front | JJRicks Rides With Waymo #1
JJRicks
“Check out this video, it works really well”
1 HN recommenders · 2020–2022
talk#4696Chris Urmson: How a driverless car sees the road
TED
“This video shows why staying in your lane on a highway (what Tesla autopilot does) and dealing with city streets are two just completely different things”
2 HN recommenders · 2015–2022
explainer#4766Tesla Autopilot Crashes into Motorcycle Riders - Why?
FortNine
“There is a great argument for having ultrasonic sensors and radar”
1 HN recommenders · 2022–2024
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