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What I've never understood is how you're going to get a car to understand a construction worker or cop doing hand signals without artificial general intelligenc
by viburnum 6y ago
What I've never understood is how you're going to get a car to understand a construction worker or cop doing hand signals without artificial general intelligence. Why even bother with the car until you've figured that out in the lab?
- maxerickson 6y agohttps://www.gearbrain.com/waymo-driverless-car-hand-signals-2629692132.html https://www.gearbrain.com/waymo-driverless-car-hand-signals-... I actually found that looking for a years old article about Google's system accounting for bicyclists making hand signals, but there you go.
- thatcat 6y agoHand signals and gestures have been used with kinect systems for awhile now.
- wongarsu 6y agoHand signals are pretty standardised and obvious, and even the first Kinect (XBox accessory from 2010) can estimate people's skeletons sufficiently well to figure out construction worker hand signals. I would expect that you can solve this pretty well even without any ML at all.
- criswell 6y agoYeah, but humans.
- objektif 6y agoWhat if we replace them with cheap light signals?
- aembleton 6y agoLights can fail. When that happens you need a human to direct traffic.
- vsareto 6y agoEven if you can identify the hand signal, and identify that a construction worker is giving them (establishing authority that the car should follow this signal), the signal contains a lot of implied information. If the worker indicates you to go into the opposing lane, how long should the car remain there? How do you tell the construction part is done and you should return to normal self-driving logic? Sometimes there are cones, but sometimes not. American workers do often have Slow / Stop signs, giving a clear indication of when to move at least. If you are going down a street slowly, and someone is wearing a hi-vis vest for their own safety, and they point at something, is your car going to follow that pedestrian's instructions?
- scoopertrooper 6y agoA simple solution around that problem might be for these companies to form a consortium to develop and distribute (for free) autonomous car friendly signalling equipment to municipalities.