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Re:Cruise's 3rd generation self-driving car by bobsil1 on Monday September 11, 2017 @07:21PM (#15223334)
The edge cases are endless (wheelchair woman chasing a chicken), and without a semantic world model the car will have no idea what to do. Low-level object avoidance architecture isn't enough.
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Re:Cruise's 3rd generation self-driving car by bitL on Monday September 11, 2017 @07:45PM (#15223505)
Actually that case would be detected as two objects on a collision course and car would stop/slow down. Mind that sensors scan surroundings with high frequency and some of them can see "beyond the walls" like radar. Ultrasonic sensors can also detect the state of road surface (dry, wet, icy etc.).
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Re:Cruise's 3rd generation self-driving car by bobsil1 on Monday September 11, 2017 @07:48PM (#15223525)
Yes, but when can the car proceed, and in which direction? Helps to know what a wheelchair, a woman and a chicken are and how they behave. Helps to be able to speak with them.

Superhuman sensors will be great, but you really can't dodge AGI for true full self-driving.

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Re:Cruise's 3rd generation self-driving car by bitL on Monday September 11, 2017 @10:14PM (#15224236)
It's probably super easy for the car to stop and open the window for a person to talk ;-)
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Re:Cruise's 3rd generation self-driving car by bobsil1 on Monday September 11, 2017 @10:31PM (#15224301)
True, you could have the passenger making "shoo" noises :D
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