Autonomous Car Progress

[Daniel in SD]

I was just thinking that if Tesla can drive a car with an end to end NN then they can probably train a NN to do many of our jobs. We're going to need the revenue from our robotaxis to survive.

 

[EVNow]

I was just thinking that if Tesla can drive a car with an end to end NN then they can probably train a NN to do many of our jobs. We're going to need the revenue from our robotaxis to survive.

That's why Musk supports UBI

 

[Octo]

I was just thinking that if Tesla can drive a car with an end to end NN then they can probably train a NN to do many of our jobs. We're going to need the revenue from our robotaxis to survive.

Haha. Baby steps. First it needs to reliably detect lanes (and not just perfectly painted lanes without any merges or splits). I’m not worried about the Tesla NN overlords. Yet.

 

[avoigt]

I started a first Video about AP/NoAP in Europe and may do some more about steep curves, autobahn changes, precision, anticipation, misses, corner cases, driving in the dark act.

Enjoy:

 

[diplomat33]

Pretty nice overview published yesterday about Waymo and the pros and cons of autonomous vehicles in general:

 

[diplomat33]

Waymo cars driving in a sand storm:

It's a super short clip though so it is hard to tell the reliability over a long period of time. But it is still interesting. It would appear that Waymo cars, thanks to all their sensors, are still able to navigate in low visibility conditions.

 

[EVNow]

Waymo cars driving in a sand storm:

It's a super short clip though so it is hard to tell the reliability over a long period of time. But it is still interesting. It would appear that Waymo cars, thanks to all their sensors, are still able to navigate in low visibility conditions.

Once they localize i.e. identify the cars current position within the HD map - they just use the map to drive. Of course avoiding obstacles.

 

[timewasted]

Waymo cars driving in a sand storm:

It's a super short clip though so it is hard to tell the reliability over a long period of time. But it is still interesting. It would appear that Waymo cars, thanks to all their sensors, are still able to navigate in low visibility conditions.

Look at those wonderful multiple independent systems that work in harmony to keep both the occupants of the vehicle and the other people on the road safe!

 

[emmz0r]

Why are the clips so short? Does it take that short of a time before it does something wrong?

 

[Daniel in SD]

Why are the clips so short? Does it take that short of a time before it does something wrong?

You should sign up for Waymo One and investigate!
Phoenix, Arizona looks like a lovely place to live.

 

[emmz0r]

You should sign up for Waymo One and investigate!
Phoenix, Arizona looks like a lovely place to live.

Will you pay for my visa and so on. Not American

 

[Daniel in SD]

Will you pay for my visa and so on. Not American

No. haha. The joke is that Phoenix looks like an uninhabitable hellscape in that video.
If I did live there I would definitely sign up for Waymo One (there is a waitlist though) and see how well it works.

 

[diplomat33]

Why are the clips so short? Does it take that short of a time before it does something wrong?

Here is another video released today of Waymo navigating in fog but it is also very short, only 12 seconds. Hmmm?!

 

[diplomat33]

Here is a 5mn "review" of Waymo cars with some info about how the cars drive.

 

[EVNow]

Here is another video released today of Waymo navigating in fog but it is also very short, only 12 seconds. Hmmm?!

They stopped the video just as it was showing keep clear. Did the car stop where the road sign said "keep clear"

BTW, I've not had any problem with AP in rain/fog. Though someone was saying they have problem with AP in Houston rain - we don't get torrential rain here in the NW.

 

[rnortman]

Once they localize i.e. identify the cars current position within the HD map - they just use the map to drive. Of course avoiding obstacles.

But having sensors obscured inhibits their ability to do both -- localize and detect obstacles.

 

[diplomat33]

Really nice in depth video of Nvidia's autonomous vehicle progress. The video shows you exactly what the car is seeing with great commentary too:

 

[dgatwood]

BTW, I've not had any problem with AP in rain/fog. Though someone was saying they have problem with AP in Houston rain - we don't get torrential rain here in the NW.

The only time I got a rain-related "Take over immediately" message was on CA-17. I was running along in the left lane next to the concrete divider, and the other side of the road was apparently flooded pretty badly. A large truck hit the flooded area and dumped O(5 gallons) of water very suddenly on my windshield, completely obliterating my vision for the better part of a second. Autopilot was only slightly more horrified than I was.

 

[Enginerd]

Really nice in depth video of Nvidia's autonomous vehicle progress.

Thanks for the video. I'm happy for Nvidia. But I can't get too excited for them, because my production car already does all that.

 

[EVNow]

TheInformation has another article about WayMo. But its behind a paywall.

Here is the twitter thread ...

Amir Efrati on Twitter

In Silicon Valley, where Waymo's employees take rides as if they were customers, it's worse. Riders cited problems in ~half of rides, e.g. one said they wanted to "barf." One car recently got stuck in Waymo's HQ parking lot b/c it thought a

was a

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