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Two thoughts: Cars are far-and-away the biggest killer of people in my age group. I sincerely hope that we are not going for true parity, and they will not en
by bunderbunder 15y ago
Two thoughts:
Cars are far-and-away the biggest killer of people in my age group. I sincerely hope that we are not going for true parity, and they will not end up driving like we do.
Using a couple stereoscopic pictures to get the lay of the land is a very, very error-prone process. Humans have to make do with it because we have very limited sensory equipment available to us. Computers can and should make use of the vastly superior technologies that they have at their disposal. One of the main points to this whole enterprise is to make better, safer cars by replacing the primary point of failure behind most collisions. Deliberately crippling the system in an effort to slavishly imitate the thing it's supposed to replace would be completely missing the point.
- pbw 15y ago> I sincerely hope that we are not going for true parity Commercial driverless cars will blow humans out of the water in safety and reliability. That is the goal and should be goal. To achieve the goal multiple sensors can and should be used. But separately AI researchers will continue to improve and evolve their algorithms. One avenue for improvement is to operate with fewer sensors. A human driver can drive passably well on any road without LIDAR or radar or GPS. In time computers can and should be able to do the same. We will benefit from that capability, even if in general driverless cars make use of other sensors.