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The self-driving car has trouble telling whether a white object on the road is a piece of paper or a rock. Most humans don't have that problem. I don't why we

• kruczek 12y ago
  But a self-driving car doesn't need to be more intelligent than a human brain, it just needs to be better at driving. Human brain is certainly a better general-purpose compuing machine, but there are many situations where technology can vastly improve its performance for specific cases (e.g. reaction time). As for distinguishing rock and paper, humans also often fail at similar tasks - "is it a lump of snow on the road ahead, or is it a rock?". Better to just avoid uncertain objects in such cases. But true that there is certainly some room for improvement (for cars, because we are unable to improve brains).
  • scottlocklin 12y ago
    An autonomous vehicle needs to be at least as good as people at crap like reading numbers and street signs. There is no such thing as a computer which can do this task, though all drivers can do it, or they wouldn't pass their driver tests. That's why these are still considered challenging data sets for machine vision people: http://ufldl.stanford.edu/housenumbers/ http://ufldl.stanford.edu/housenumbers/ http://benchmark.ini.rub.de/ http://benchmark.ini.rub.de/