Editing Anthony Levandowski (section)

== Early life and education ==
Levandowski was born on March 15, 1980, in [[Brussels]], Belgium to a French diplomat mother and an American businessman. He moved to California in the mid-1990s. During his teenage years, he developed websites for local businesses.<ref name="New Yorker" />

In 1998, Levandowski entered the [[University of California, Berkeley]], where he earned bachelor's and master's degrees in industrial engineering and [[operations research]].<ref>{{cite web|author=Bonnie Azab Powell|date=13 February 2003|url=http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2003/02/13_levandowski.shtml|title=Spotlight on student entrepreneurs: At 22, Anthony Levandowski is already a veteran businessman|work=UC Berkeley News|access-date=13 September 2016}}</ref> As a freshman, he founded La Raison, an intranet and IT services company that made fifty thousand dollars in its first year.<ref name=":4">{{Cite web|title=At 23, Anthony Levandowski is already a veteran businessman|url=https://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2003/02/13_levandowski.shtml|access-date=2020-06-16|website=www.berkeley.edu}}</ref><ref name="New Yorker" /> His sophomore year, Levandowski built the BillSortBot, a robot made from 300 [[Lego]] pieces that sorted [[Monopoly (game)|Monopoly]] money for the Sun Microsoft robotics competition. He won first place.<ref name=":4" /> In 2003, Levandowski launched Construction Control Systems with Randy Miller to build WorkTop, a portable blueprint reader and updater for construction sites.<ref name=":4" />

In 2003, Levandowski and fellow Berkeley engineers, as the "Blue Team", started building an autonomous [[motorcycle]], nicknamed Ghostrider, for the [[DARPA Grand Challenge|2004 DARPA Grand Challenge]].<ref name="CNET">{{cite web|url=https://www.cnet.com/news/robotic-prius-takes-itself-for-a-spin-around-sf/|title=Robotic Prius takes itself for a spin around SF|first=Declan|last=McCullagh|date=September 26, 2008|work=CNET|access-date=13 September 2016}}</ref> It was built over several years for an estimated $100,000 and competed in the DARPA Grand Challenge in 2004 and 2005. It was the only autonomous two-wheeled vehicle in the competitions.<ref name="IEEE Spectrum">{{cite web|first=Mark|last=Harris|date=19 Nov 2014|url=https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-unknown-startup-that-built-googles-first-selfdriving-car|title=The Unknown Start-up That Built Google's First Self-Driving Car|work=IEEE Spectrum|access-date=13 September 2016}}</ref> The motorcycle was retrofitted with video cameras, computers, a GPS receiver, an IMU, and motors to power the clutch and steering.<ref>{{Cite web|title="Ghostrider" Robot Motorcycle|url=https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_1332301|access-date=2020-06-16|website=National Museum of American History|language=en}}</ref> At the DARPA Grand Challenge, the motorcycle collapsed at the starting line due to a forgotten switch preventing it from stabilizing.  Despite this, as the team lead, participation in the DARPA Grand Challenge paved the way for Levandowski to build PriBot, the first self-driving car to drive on public roads.<ref name=":5">{{Cite web|title=Full Page Reload|url=https://spectrum.ieee.org/ghostrider-the-self-driving-motorbike-that-launched-anthony-levandowski|access-date=2020-06-16|website=IEEE Spectrum: Technology, Engineering, and Science News|date=February 27, 2018|language=en}}</ref> In 2007, Levandowski donated Ghostrider to the [[Smithsonian Institution|Smithsonian]] [[National Museum of American History]], where it resides.<ref name=":5" /><ref name="New Yorker" />