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Open-source simulator for autonomous driving research.

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Develop and test autonomous driving systems using a detailed open-source simulation environment.

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git clone -b ue5-dev https://github.com/carla-simulator/carla.git CarlaUE5
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Open-source simulator for autonomous driving research.

carla has 14.2k stars on GitHub. It has been forked 4.6k times. carla is written mainly in C++. It has been in active development since 2017. carla is available under the MIT license. Its main topics are ai, artificial-intelligence, autonomous-driving, autonomous-vehicles.

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Open-source simulator for autonomous driving research.

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carla is an open-source project. It is released under the MIT license.

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Yes. carla is free and open source — you can use, modify and self-host it.

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carla is available under the MIT license.

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carla is written mainly in C++.

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