This is by the Baidu AI team.
Apollo – An open autonomous driving platform
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#22I'd imagine this could work on a small fleet of miniature cars (rc size?). A model town/city could be built with various obstacles for training a large amount of the ai, I would think.
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#23Maybe I'm missing something, is this is a platform strictly for developing ML techniques? Or is it intended to actual run in a vehicle... on ubuntu, in a docker container? I'm no expert, but I would think you'd want a realtime OS for this. Right?
More likely is that the car would have a Linux box running this software that connects to one or more micro controllers. The micro controllers handle any sensors/actuators with real time requirements, and may be running an RTOS or just bare metal.
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#24How many more projects are going to get launched with the name "apollo"?
Only until we have an ApolloGate scandal.
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#25Would this work on an electric bicycle? Edit: or more stable tri-cycle/quad-cycle
A team at the University of Washington Bothell (UWB) is already working on such thing :
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#26Autonomous driving based purely on machine learning from vision is scary. Machine learning is, after all, a statistical method. It's going to do really great most of the time, and really badly once in a while.
The exact same can be said about human drivers. Why do we demand that autonomous driving is 100% safe? I would be completely fine with autonomous cars that sometimes crash, but are still less likely to do so than with human drivers.
Liability for an accident not related to equipment malfunction generally stops with the human driver. Liability for accidents related to autonomous systems will not to be so limited.
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#27The list of partners looks quite interesting, including Ford, Bosch and Delphi. It is apparently based on ROS like Autoware.
And so many Chinese automotive companies I'd never heard of!
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#28These open source driving platforms are an interesting way to test out the limits of liability disclaimers on software. This license has: 8. Limitation of Liability. In no event and under no legal theory, whether in tort (including negligence), contract, or otherwise, unless required by applicable law (such as deliberate and grossly negligent acts) or agreed to in writing, shall any Contributor be liable to You for d…
I notice the website contains a separate disclaimer that begins:
"The Apollo Open Platform (“Platform”) data, software and code provided or developed on the Platform (collectively, “Platform Code”), may be licensed to you strictly for testing purposes."
http://apollo.auto/docs/disclaimer.html
IANAL, but is it permissible to say that Apache licensed code is only licensed for the purposes of "testing"? Wouldn't that conflict with clause 2 of the Apache license?
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#29These open source driving platforms are an interesting way to test out the limits of liability disclaimers on software. This license has: 8. Limitation of Liability. In no event and under no legal theory, whether in tort (including negligence), contract, or otherwise, unless required by applicable law (such as deliberate and grossly negligent acts) or agreed to in writing, shall any Contributor be liable to You for d…
Count me out on ever contributing to a project like this. I really don't want to be a test case.
Most open source projects have a disclaimer like this. You don't want to be responsible for the usage of whichever random programmer either.
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