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No one suggested that it needs an intimate understanding of trucks. It needs to be able to tell the difference between empty space and not empty space. It nee
by stonemetal 10y ago
No one suggested that it needs an intimate understanding of trucks. It needs to be able to tell the difference between empty space and not empty space. It needs to be able to do that for the entire volume the vehicle will occupy not just some of it. Otherwise it will run into trees, wires strung up to decapitate motorcyclist[1], farm animals and other obstacles that may or may not extend all the way to the ground directly in front of the sensor.
[1] Unfortunately that is a thing. http://lanesplitter.jalopnik.com/police-hunting-sadistic-bastards-who-tied-neck-high-st-1645890272 http://lanesplitter.jalopnik.com/police-hunting-sadistic-bas...
- stcredzero 10y agoNo one suggested that it needs an intimate understanding of trucks. It needs to be able to tell the difference between empty space and not empty space. To do that, it has to understand the truck as a light colored rectangular prism with corrugated metal sides, suspended a few feet off the road surface by other structures. (wheels) I don't mean that the Tesla has to understand trucks and interstate trucking. I just mean that it understands it's a certain kind of object that's an obstruction. Doing this from an image isn't trivial. That's why LIDAR is so often used.