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 CARLA Simulator
 ===============
 
-See [CARLA Documentation](Docs/index.md).
+We introduce **CARLA**, an open-source simulator for autonomous driving
+research. CARLA has been developed from the ground up to support development,
+training, and validation of autonomous urban driving systems. In addition to
+open-source code and protocols, CARLA provides open digital assets (urban
+layouts, buildings, vehicles) that were created for this purpose and can be used
+freely. The simulation platform supports flexible specification of sensor suites
+and environmental conditions.
+
+[![CARLA Video](Docs/img/video_thumbnail.png)](https://youtu.be/9l89Dt-JFeU)
+
+[Get the latest release here.](https://github.com/carla-simulator/carla/releases/latest)
+
+For instructions on how to use and compile CARLA, check out
+[CARLA Documentation](Docs/index.md).
+
+Paper
+-----
+
+If you use CARLA, please cite our CoRL’17 paper.
+
+_CARLA: An Open Urban Driving Simulator_<br>Alexey Dosovitskiy, German Ros,
+Felipe Codevilla, Antonio Lopez, Vladlen Koltun; PMLR 78:1-16
+[[PDF](http://proceedings.mlr.press/v78/dosovitskiy17a/dosovitskiy17a.pdf)]
+
+
+```
+@inproceedings{Dosovitskiy17,
+  title = {{CARLA}: {An} Open Urban Driving Simulator},
+  author = {Alexey Dosovitskiy and German Ros and Felipe Codevilla and Antonio Lopez and Vladlen Koltun},
+  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 1st Annual Conference on Robot Learning},
+  pages = {1--16},
+  year = {2017}
+}
+```
+
+License
+-------
+
+CARLA specific code is distributed under MIT License.
+
+CARLA specific assets are distributed under CC-BY License.
+
+Note that UE4 itself and the UE4 free automotive materials follow their own
+license terms.
+
+CARLA uses free automotive materials from Epic Games. For compiling CARLA, these
+materials must be dowloanded from the UE4 marketplace and manually linked in
+CARLA following the instructions provided in the documentation.
+
+CARLA uses pedestrians created with Adobe Fuse, which is a free tool for that
+purpose. Currently, we cannot redistribute these pedestrians models. They can
+only be used in the provided executable.