diplomat33
Average guy who loves autonomous vehicles
That is interesting. The delay may have been the car calling home for help. "Is it appropriate to go around" with the staff saying "Yes". The visual cue to drive around is the open back door doing a delivery and delivery staff going in and out of the back. This doesn't seem like a detail the AI would have high confidence at this point: at least I hope they don't have thousands of examples of double-parked trucks doing deliveries yet.
Yeah, we don't know if the Waymo did figure it out on its own without remote assistance or if it phoned home and got the hint that it was ok to go around.
I am sure Waymo has examples of double parked trucks doing deliveries. In the 10M+ miles of autonomous driving, this can't be the first time they encountered a double parked truck doing deliveries.
Waymo also uses a technique called data augmentation where they can take a small sample and use ML to create variations of the sample to increase the variety and size of the sample. Data augmentation allows you to create a bigger and better training set than you otherwise could do if you just waited to encounter every case in the real world. So Waymo could easily create thousands of examples of double parked trucks doing deliveries to train their stack. If they have not done so already, I am sure they will now based on this example. Anguelov talks about data augmentation here:
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