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Lex Friedman's team at MIT seem to think that fully autonomous driving is a long way off: there are just too many edge cases to deal with. https://arxiv.org/ab
by soVeryTired 8y ago
Lex Friedman's team at MIT seem to think that fully autonomous driving is a long way off: there are just too many edge cases to deal with.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.06976 https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.06976
From the abstract: "Until these problems are solved,
human beings will remain an integral part of the driving task, monitoring the AI system as it performs anywhere from just over 0% to just under 100% of the driving".
Now there's room to be optimistic or pessimistic about how much an AI can help, but the academic consensus is that level five will need many more research breakthroughs. There are some good video lectures that give an overview of the field (but not that much depth) here:
https://selfdrivingcars.mit.edu/ https://selfdrivingcars.mit.edu/
- kazinator 8y ago> human beings will remain an integral part of the driving task And not just any humans, for that matter: humans over a certain age who are trained and licensed. A seven-year-old human is smarter than any AI and has better knowledge about the world, yet we don't let them drive.
- Fricken 8y agoLex Fridman's team has drawn their highly disingenuous conclusions based on studies of automated (not autonomous) systems from Volvo, Tesla and Range Rover. They didn't study a single product from a company working on an actual autonomous driving system, and of course they can't because those products are all currently in development and not available to study.
- soVeryTired 8y agoIt's fair to criticize a study but when you start calling an academic researcher 'highly disingenuous', you just sound like you have a horse in the race. Did you found an autonomous driving company or something?