Re:Nvidia on new self-driving system: “basically 5 years ahe...
by sliken on Saturday November 12, 2016 @08:47PM
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In a perfect world lidar is far superior. It's trivial to say "out of the 50M voxels returned, are any from where the car will be in 3 seconds". So lidar wins in the best case, maybe even the average case.
However in the real world where the car/sensors gets dirty/wet, and the air is filled with snowflakes, raindrops, or mist it gets much more complicated.
Even if statistically better there's value to acting more like a human driver. After all the roads are filled with human controlled cars and any deviation from human norms because of weather(like wind, snow, rain, fog, and blown sand) cause problems.
However in the real world where the car/sensors gets dirty/wet, and the air is filled with snowflakes, raindrops, or mist it gets much more complicated.
Even if statistically better there's value to acting more like a human driver. After all the roads are filled with human controlled cars and any deviation from human norms because of weather(like wind, snow, rain, fog, and blown sand) cause problems.