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> where the visualization (not even the autopilot!) gets confused by seeing real (!) traffic lights on a truck, so it paints them in space, but then has to re-r
by akersten 5y ago
> where the visualization (not even the autopilot!) gets confused by seeing real (!) traffic lights on a truck, so it paints them in space, but then has to re-recognize them because they are moving.
Just my hypothesis: but I think the autopilot really did see them as traffic lights, and just got lucky that they weren't powered and ignored them as out of order. Were there a cross street, I suspect the car would have stopped and treated it as an uncontrolled intersection...
- ajross 5y agoJust as with real brains, "the autopilot" isn't a unitary thing. Different parts do different things. The ML that recognizes objects is different from the software that makes decisions as to which recognitions to honor. In this case, all we have is evidence for the first half: the vision system detected (correctly!) images of traffic lights, which then got presented by the UI visualization (correctly!) in the right place. But the software model is that traffic signs are static, and these were moving, so the visualization had no way to present that. It just left them there until the ML told them they weren't there anymore. What would the AP have done? We don't know. But I don't know why we should simply assume it would have done the wrong thing. Driving is filled with false-positive indicators that it already knows to ignore successfully.