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When are they going to just seal off an area so it's self-driving vehicles only, and test them there? In a 100% self driving environment, edge cases are probab
by CloudYeller 7y ago
When are they going to just seal off an area so it's self-driving vehicles only, and test them there? In a 100% self driving environment, edge cases are probably much easier to reason about. And if the future is 100% self driving, they should probably get some training data from that environment anyway.
- icelancer 7y ago>> When are they going to just seal off an area so it's self-driving vehicles only, and test them there? Talk about your all-time overfitting problem.
- tlb 7y agoWaymo has quite a large autonomous-only test facility. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/08/inside-waymos-secret-testing-and-simulation-facilities/537648/ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/08/insid... They also use it to populate simulations with realistic traffic models.
- berdario 7y agoThey already ran plenty of tests in a controlled environment: https://www.wired.com/story/google-waymo-self-driving-car-castle-testing/ https://www.wired.com/story/google-waymo-self-driving-car-ca...
- javagram 7y agoWith bicycles and pedestrians sharing the common roads, a 100% self driving environment anywhere but the freeway is never going to happen though. They need to be able to handle the chaos.