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It's possible they have no classifier for "monorail column" so I don't think anything would show up even if it recognized an obstacle was in the way.
by nexuist 5y ago
It's possible they have no classifier for "monorail column" so I don't think anything would show up even if it recognized an obstacle was in the way.
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- spywaregorilla 5y agoI would imagine having a classifier for something so specific would be detrimental. I have no horse in this race, but I questioned how extreme the car's movements would have been without intervention. The guy yells as if the car is about to crash itself, but... idk, it didn't seem obvious to me that the car was actually going to do that. Does the UI actually show that it was trying to?
- heavyset_go 5y agoIt's scary that objects that weren't classified by ImageNet, or whatever, can cause self-driving cars to attempt to hit them at full speed.
- nexuist 5y agoI agree, and LIDAR would be the obvious best choice here. For whatever reasons the Autopilot team is choosing to go down the route of mimicking human driving, which means trying to replicate the pipeline of human eye to brain-object recognition. To that end, it's not unlikely that a human eye could mis-classify something on the road and ram a car into it at full speed. In fact, it probably happens every day.