๐Ÿš™ Autonomous Cars: 10 Awesome Open Source Projects

Tom Smykowski
4 min readAug 5, 2024

You can actually work on autonomous cars right away. There is plenty of open source projects that need contributors. With your skills you can shape the future of safe roads

Today Iโ€™d like to tell you about ten awesome open source projects for automotive. Actually, the first on the list appeared in my previous episode of 25 awesome open source end user apps.

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But Iโ€™ve found more projects that are specifically about cars. These are quite fascinating:

1. OpenPilot โ€” Open Source Car AutoPilot

Source: Openpilot page

The project is one I learned about a month ago, and it blew my mind. You probably are familiar with Tesla autopilot right? So, imagine there is an autopilot that can be added to a number of various cars. It can connect with the car through the standard interface and control aspects of driving according to the conditions on the road. Imagine it is open source. OpenPilot is exactly that. An open sourceโ€ฆ

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Tom Smykowski

Software Engineer & Tech Editor. Top 2% on StackOverflow, 3mil views on Quora. Won Shattered Pixel Dungeon.