Self-driving car experts offer online degree in ‘flying cars’

WASHINGTON — Self-driving car pioneer, Sebastian Thrun has shifted his gaze to the skies, as his Silicon Valley online school Udacity launches what it calls the first “nanodegree” in flying car engineering.

With companies from Airbus and Amazon to Uber [UBER.UL] throttling up development of their own autonomous aerial vehicles, Thrun believes “in a few years’ time, this will be the hottest topic on the planet.”

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