there are two kinda of people who discuss self driving cars:
- members of comma.ai discord
- everyone else
conversation amongst one of these groups is more interesting than the other, and there isn’t much crosstalk.
Can we have a less flamey discussion of self driving cars?
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Re: Can we have a less flamey discussion of self driving cars?
#32> - Do the technically-savvy folks on this list think that a heuristic approach (i.e. a bunch of rules written by humans) could ever succeed at effective self driving in diverse conditions? Or is the machine learning + massive data approach more likely to solve it? The only solution that sounds plausible to me is a hybrid approach. Much like when building a car you can make the engine as complex as you like - but you…
I too wonder about the way good drivers anticipate circumstances and prepare themselves to respond. That might indeed be hard to replicate.
But then I realized that detecting these kinds of patterns (kid chasing ball, car next to you that is stuck behind a slow driver, bumper to bumper with a merge approaching, etc.) are precisely what machine learning is good at.
Arguably it could get better at it than any human because it draws not just on the situations one person happens to have encountered in their lifetime. Rather the model that gets uploaded to each car is built from the experiences of millions of cars on billions of miles of driving taking place (eventually) over decades.
Perhaps at some point the quantity of relevant data more than compensates for the greater reasoning and fluidity of a human brain.
It’s hard to know until someone’s tech actually gets there…