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Holy cow. With a pedestrian in / on the edge of the crosswalk. And there was even another car that had been moving just a few seconds earlier stopped there too...
You don't think it was going to stop if the pedestrian stepped out in front? If autonomous cars can't do that, they can't do anything.
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Have you seen the video? It's way more jacked up than what you're implying: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pzzQ42D9Srw Watch that and tell me that it's reasonable or caused by a short yellow...
I've run that light myself by accident. It's a hard light for humans too. This light is in the middle of a block rather than at the end. The area is full of activity including people walking but also popular sights. That brick building to the right is SFMOMA. Its hard to notice the traffic lights amongst all this activity not to mention that you don't look for it. Also that middle lane can easily have its views obstr…
That makes it hard for a person, especially if they're new to that road, but why would it affect the database lookup that a self-driving car is doing?
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Normal humans also run red lights when the yellow-to-red light time is too short. Transit guidelines generally state that yellow lights should stay lit 1 second for every 10mph of the speed limit. When the yellow light is shorter than this, it's easy to get caught in the middle of a red.
Have you seen the video? It's way more jacked up than what you're implying: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pzzQ42D9Srw Watch that and tell me that it's reasonable or caused by a short yellow...
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I'm curious as to what happens when there are two cars with active sensors at the same place - how much would they interfere with each other?
There are a lot of techniques to avoid it. I remember listening to an interview with Greg Charvat who said that coding a polarised pulse train with some random phase distribution is a possibility for avoiding interference.
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I've run that light myself by accident. It's a hard light for humans too. This light is in the middle of a block rather than at the end. The area is full of activity including people walking but also popular sights. That brick building to the right is SFMOMA. Its hard to notice the traffic lights amongst all this activity not to mention that you don't look for it. Also that middle lane can easily have its views obstr…
Its hard to notice the traffic lights amongst all this activity not to mention that you don't look for it. That makes it hard for a person, especially if they're new to that road, but why would it affect the database lookup that a self-driving car is doing?
Perhaps I should have said that its a hard light for humans but that I don't know anything about how hard it is for cars.
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There are a lot of techniques to avoid it. I remember listening to an interview with Greg Charvat who said that coding a polarised pulse train with some random phase distribution is a possibility for avoiding interference.
What about malicious interference?
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Don't forget illegally running autonomous tractor trailers in Palo Alto and on the roads of Nevada. These guys are criminals... total disregard for human life (but their own) in every shape and way there is. From potentially killing people, too treating everyone is who not their BRO like trash; drivers, employees, customers, business partners, etc, etc, etc... GROSS!
Your comments come off as if you are more bitter about some company you can just choose to ignore than benchamark is about Travis.
Reminder to us all to please declare your interests if you have them. even if it's only:
Full disclosure: I quite like Uber.
For me, full disclosure, I do actually, quite like Uber. (Although not everything they do, or endorse all their policies or individual employee abhorrent behavior etc).
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Its hard to notice the traffic lights amongst all this activity not to mention that you don't look for it. That makes it hard for a person, especially if they're new to that road, but why would it affect the database lookup that a self-driving car is doing?
I barely know anything about how self driving cars work so someone else should answer that. I am not affiliated with Uber or its competitors. Perhaps I should have said that its a hard light for humans but that I don't know anything about how hard it is for cars.
This mechanism really shouldn't be susceptible to the same biases as humans. The described signal may legitimately be more challenging for the self driving car, but more than likely the signal was missing from Uber's database. Their lack of explanation for this failure does not inspire confidence in their approach.
[1] http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/Web/People/zkolter/pubs...
Self-driving is such important (just after eliminating combustion engines) that we could upgrade existing cars with cheap ROMB boxes. Vehicle GPS tracking system costs about $30. ROMB box would cost about $60. Let's say that from 2027 all cars have to have a ROMB box to enter a downtown ...