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> Although self-driving is a hard problem, automatically determining that the car may have had an accident and alerting humans in your control center is a much
by glaucon 6y ago
> Although self-driving is a hard problem, automatically determining that the car may have had an accident and alerting humans in your control center is a much easier problem
I have a sneaky feeling that detecting whether a driverless car has hit a cyclist is not an easy problem. I can imagine scenarios where the contact took place towards the rear of the car (and therefore not at the primary focus of sensor attention), the cyclist goes careening off to the left or right and the car blithely goes on. I'm not saying such a scenario is impossible with a traditional car but it's a dam sight harder to ignore.
- zoomablemind 6y agoYes, the cyclist interaction came to my mind too. At times in slow traffic you may encounter the same cyclist sharing the same road over and over either in front, on the side, or about to catch-up to your car. Those blind spots are truly ennerving at such times... Do driverless cars have their kind of blind spots? How about dealing with potholes? Do they also swerve around to protect suspension or just ram through?
- ironman1478 6y agoThese cars don't have blind spots. They setup the spinny lidars to get almost 360 degree coverage and also dedicated lidars that are for nearfield detection. It's very hard, if not impossible, to sneak up on these cars. There are also techniques to drive defensively/safely if there is uncertainty about the scene. For potholes, it's a function of detection. You can't rely on mapping data, because potholes aren't something that might exist at the time of mapping, so you have use lidar/radar to detect a hole, but depending on angle, if there is another car in front, time of lidars, etc. it might be difficult to detect. My speculation is that the cars just ram through it.