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> A human would have seen what all the other cars were doing, and emulated that eventually, even if the construction was poorly marked. I have a hunch that 90%
by raverbashing 6y ago
> A human would have seen what all the other cars were doing, and emulated that eventually, even if the construction was poorly marked.
I have a hunch that 90% of self-driving could be solved like that, but then there's always that 10% of situations where there's nobody in front or someone who doesn't know what they're doing.
But yes it would be a good heuristic.
- mannykannot 6y agoUntil, in this case, the car in front made a left turn.
- angry_octet 6y agoBut it would still have escaped the deadlock it was in.
- mannykannot 6y agoIn this case, if it followed the car ahead through a left turn, then that would be so, but if it did not, and it were still in the section of road restricted by the cones, it would have become stuck again, just as it did after it made the initial turn onto the restricted road. The thing is, the strategy of 'follow other traffic' needs exit rules, and while it is relatively straightforward to begin the strategy when stuck, deciding when to abandon it is less clear-cut. Did the left-turning vehicle do so because this was the correct way to deal with the problem, or did it have a different goal?
- microtherion 6y agoI'm reminded of Douglas Adams: "He had a tremendous propensity for getting lost when driving. This was largely because of his method of “Zen” navigation, which was simply to find any car that looked as if it knew where it was going and follow it. The results were more often surprising than successful, but he felt it was worth it for the sake of the few occasions when it was both."