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Very interesting. I never knew that Google was collecting all this data for their cars; I assumed they worked by assessing the scene in real-time. I guess this
by delluminatus 12y ago
Very interesting. I never knew that Google was collecting all this data for their cars; I assumed they worked by assessing the scene in real-time. I guess this means that, if Google's self-driving cars are ever widely legalized, their users may have to stick to a set of "allowed roads", and not venture off the beaten path without manual control.
Like the author says, the idea really does have a strong whiff of Googleyness. Bind-bogglingly ambitious, technically extremely impressive, and fairly creepy.
- trhway 12y ago> if Google's self-driving cars are ever widely legalized, their users may have to stick to a set of "allowed roads" one can also imagine that to renew car registration one would have in addition to evidence of insurance to also provide evidence of updated subscription to the Google road database
- dave5104 12y agoI'm sure the end goal is to actually be able to plop down a car anywhere and have it go, doing all of the data processing in real time. Even if Google could map out all those details, the world just changes too darn often. Feels like it'd be a liability to rely on potentially out of date Google information.
- davidcbc 12y agoI'm not sure about the technical feasibility, but to me the obvious answer seems to be integrating the map creation into the car and crowd source it. Maybe it takes X number of times driving manually on a road before the map has an adequate quality for self driving and then once the map is "good enough" tweaks are made for changing road conditions each subsequent time a Google car drives on it.