This could be a pay-to-ride-for-thrill startup idea. What a ride!
Until someone spills a bit of oil on the pavement and it drifts straight into a nearby wall because oily pavement is "out of domain" for its deep learning systems.
Autonomous DeLorean drives sideways to move forward
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#12They did most of that back in 2015.[1] This is version 2. It's interesting what's happening as the control theory people get into machine learning. The controls people don't typically run a neural net as a controller. They use the trained net as a tool for building a controller with known continuity properties. The trouble with pure neural net controllers is that they sometimes do something totally bogus for some dat…
>They use the trained net as a tool for building a controller with known continuity properties.
This sentence and comment is a revelation to me so thanks!
I was very into control theory from 2001-2006 before jumping into Bayes nets and eventually ML. Having not really returned to CT since, it's always been a question in my mind how to use ML for SCADA & PLCs without running into the problems that you describe. As with most problems like this, it seems obvious now that it's described as such - though not actually obvious to those like me outside of it!
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#14This could be a pay-to-ride-for-thrill startup idea. What a ride!
Until someone spills a bit of oil on the pavement and it drifts straight into a nearby wall because oily pavement is "out of domain" for its deep learning systems.
If you notice in the video there are no nearby hard walls, it's a giant open parking lot and the course is set up by soft pieces like plastic traffic cones. I'm sure a course could be made with appropriate margins for safety. Even so, in the ride world there are accidents but that doesn't stop people from riding.
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#15You’re telling me that not one Stanford engineering student could come up with a mock Flux Capacitor?!!
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#16I guess if you can afford a DeLorean you can afford to keep replacing the tires you burn up by drifting on pavement. I'd rather have my car programmed for long tire life and high mpg please.
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#17https://www.youtube.com/embed/3x3SqeSdrAE?rel=0&autoplay=1&a...
Wish theme parks had rides like this.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Until someone spills a bit of oil on the pavement and it drifts straight into a nearby wall because oily pavement is "out of domain" for its deep learning systems.
If you notice in the video there are no nearby hard walls, it's a giant open parking lot and the course is set up by soft pieces like plastic traffic cones. I'm sure a course could be made with appropriate margins for safety. Even so, in the ride world there are accidents but that doesn't stop people from riding.
Not to mention the fact that this system is monitoring the traction of all 4 wheels constantly and would detect the slip in milliseconds, transferring power to other wheels. It would be fine.
They probably already have a bunch of lubricant on that lot in order to reduce wear on the tires.
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#19Re: Autonomous DeLorean drives sideways to move forward
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Until someone spills a bit of oil on the pavement and it drifts straight into a nearby wall because oily pavement is "out of domain" for its deep learning systems.
If you notice in the video there are no nearby hard walls, it's a giant open parking lot and the course is set up by soft pieces like plastic traffic cones. I'm sure a course could be made with appropriate margins for safety. Even so, in the ride world there are accidents but that doesn't stop people from riding.
On top of that, there's the deadman's switch on the console that stops the car if the driver releases it. Would definitely pay to ride in something like this.