Most people do not have to drive by the lip of an active volcano day to day. Most people do not drive along dirt tracks day to day. Most people don’t care about these edge cases frankly. Sometimes when I go on holiday, Uber and Deliveroo are available in that location. Sometimes they’re not. Oh well. Doesn’t stop me giving a big chunk of my paycheque every month to those companies.
Love this idea. Maybe they can quote Mr Nerode something reasonable to properly map his 1km long rural drive way
This seems incorrect when we are talking about caravans and emergency vehicles. It's also incorrect in the agricultural, narrow road, cars parked on both sides scenarios mentioned in previous posts. Vehicles could talk to each other to determine who pulls over, who passes, how to give an emergency vehicle the clearest path through traffic, etc. I can see a lot of applications for AI vehicle communication. Admittedly, this won't come until a certain saturation happens, but it shouldn't be ignored.
Driving in rural Saskatchewan or Manitoba is similar.
The question is: What would make it less safe? Pedestrians walk although the light it red? Angled parking cars suddenly back out. People run into the street like deer?
Do humans need inrfared to spot these events? If a human can detect it then a camera based system can too with enough data input. We are all not giving the significance of the NN enough credit I think.
Given the number of deer strikes and vehicle pedestrian accidents, I'd say yes, they need them. The problem is that just vision doesn't track these conditions until it's too late to avoid them--doubly true at night. Having an infrared system that's aware of the surroundings has the potential of eliminating close to all of these accidents.
As you say, there's no point fitting IR sensitive cameras if there's no source of IR light to illuminate the world around you. Cameras sensitive to the thermal part of the IR spectrum are coming down in price and size, but I'd be surprised if they'd be used for a while yet.
