The most revolutionary thing about self-driving cars is distributed computing
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Re: The most revolutionary thing about self-driving cars is distributed computing
#2Can we get this clickbait title changed? I even skimmed the article and I still don't know what "the most revolutionary thing about self-driving cars" is supposed to be.
Re: The most revolutionary thing about self-driving cars is distributed computing
#3I think this post should be renamed to something like "The Self-Driving Car's Impact On Edge Computing." I thought that the most revolutionary thing about self-driving cars would be the economic impact and resulting cultural changes, which weren't really addressed in the article...
Re: The most revolutionary thing about self-driving cars is distributed computing
#4Can we get this clickbait title changed? I even skimmed the article and I still don't know what "the most revolutionary thing about self-driving cars" is supposed to be.
I've taken a crack at it, but if anyone suggests a better title (i.e. more accurate and neutral, and using language from the article itself), we can change it again.
Re: The most revolutionary thing about self-driving cars is distributed computing
#5If I didn't miscalculate then 4TB/8h is about 150MB/s.
That's quite a bit but I can't really say that's a shocking amount of image data to process.
Re: The most revolutionary thing about self-driving cars is distributed computing
#6So the most revolutionary thing about self-driving cars is onboard computing? I guess that is the case if you happen to be a blog for a company who specializes in that, but for everyone else the most revolutionary thing is still the huge advances in computer vision and scene understanding via deep learning...
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#7Self-driving cars don't really need to talk to "the cloud" much, if at all. They need some map data, and they might contribute to map data. They can use some traffic data, and can contribute to traffic data, which needs about as much data as Waze. None of this is real-time; it can be seconds or minutes behind.
Transmitting all the car's imagery to servers is an R&D activity. Google downloads all that from their vehicles to train their machine learning systems, but training is an offline process. Production vehicles might occasionally upload "interesting" imagery they didn't recognize, or data from situations where there was trouble, but there's no need to upload it all.
Re: The most revolutionary thing about self-driving cars is distributed computing
#8No, the most revolutionary thing is the freedom from police harassment it will lead to. Self driving cars will obey all local traffic laws to reach certification and deny the police a power the abuse which is the right to use a traffic stop pretextually. As in, stop you for speeding or running a light to regardless if that was his real intent.
See https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/201... for a better explanation than I can ever make. Think about it, the abuse that can happen to minorities and poorer elements of society will be much more difficult to execute. Even stealing from people under forfeiture laws will be much more difficult if the officer cannot find a valid reason to stop you for his otherwise invalid purpose
Re: The most revolutionary thing about self-driving cars is distributed computing
#9If I didn't miscalculate then 4TB/8h is about 150MB/s. That's quite a bit but I can't really say that's a shocking amount of image data to process.
Is there an actual source for that number at all? Intel did a
marketing blog post [0] where they said 4TB per 1.5HR, but without any actual explanation of it, and since then a bunch of posts started using "per 8 hours".
I'm cautious of this number because the camera and sensor feeds are very often reduced heavily in resolution and then passed for processing, so if they are considering raw uncompressed sensor streams then that's not really representative of the theoretical stored size of the data or the size of the data actually processed.
[0]: https://newsroom.intel.com/editorials/self-driving-cars-big-...
Re: The most revolutionary thing about self-driving cars is distributed computing
#10Is Mesos somehow used to deploy and orchestrate software in driverless cars?