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What about "Haha, Well you're certainly not going to create a 3D point cloud of every street in the world"... Google's self driving cars are just doing that.

by ohwp 13y ago

What about "Haha, Well you're certainly not going to create a 3D point cloud of every street in the world"... Google's self driving cars are just doing that. EDIT: I can't find the post I once read, but this post also makes some clear: http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130502024505-9947747-google-s-self-driving-car-gathers-nearly-1-gb-per-second http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130502024505-99... EDIT 2: Here a video of the presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXylqtEQ0tk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXylqtEQ0tk @ 3:30 you can see the generated (and stored) point cloud.

DanBC 13y ago
That bit blew my mind. I'd love to see some of those point clouds. Maybe Google has an artist-in-residence who could 3D print varies landmark locations?
- 3rd3 13y ago
  That was actually a little bit sobering for me. I thought the AI techniques they use were much more general, autonomous and independent of map data. I didn’t know that location information of traffic signs, pavement etc. are taken from map data. But it makes sense to prefer data from most reliable sources.