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Identifying objects means you not only know their current position and speed, you can also anticipate their possible speed and trajectory changes.

• hef19898 7y ago
  Wouldn't you need advanced AI for that? I mean even humans that are basically conditioned from childhood, at least in the western world, to judge traffic have at times trouble doing that. That's why we have safety distances. In case your prediction fails you need enough distance to just react and avoid an accident. Just one of the reasons why true self driving is such a hard problem. Already solving the question of what is ahead and around a car a reliably come up with course around these stationary and moving objects would be a major step forward.
  • snowwrestler 7y ago
    There's no safety distance available when cars can pull into the road on which you're driving. That's one reason it is valuable to ID objects--there's a big difference between a building sitting by the side of the road, and a running car sitting in a driveway with a driver behind the wheel, on the side of the road. Safe driving can mean taking proactive action in the latter case, like changing lanes away from the driveway (if you can) or slowing down, just in case that other driver screws up and tries to pull out in front you at the last second. So, yeah, you would need pretty advanced AI for that. Throw it on the pile of reasons I think it will be a long time before we see self-driving cars that are good enough (and safe enough) to replace humans.