Volvo is reportedly scaling back its self-driving car experiment

Re:Volvo is reportedly scaling back its self-driving car exp... by TeMPOraL on Monday December 18, 2017 @06:44AM (#15950989)

A computer can compute that the maximum expected velocity of that child-looking object on the sidewalk is min(hardcoded maximum velocity of a human, maximum observed velocity), and use that in order to quickly calculate whether or not it will have enough time to break, assuming the child-like object suddenly starts moving straight towards the road with maximum velocity.

Unless you expect rocket-propelled children being launched from the sidewalk, that's pretty much it.

(Of course the actual implementation within the entire system will be more complicated, but my point is - a computer can precisely compute what a human tends to intuit.)

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Re:Volvo is reportedly scaling back its self-driving car exp... by mike-cardwell on Monday December 18, 2017 @08:53AM (#15951571)

That sounds like it would end up with us having a situation where every time there is a human on the path, the car needs to slow down to 5mph in case it decides to jump out into the road.

A human can tell if there is something going on at the side of the road that might make the human jump into the road. Machines are nowhere near being able to understand the context of many situations that allow humans to predict these things.

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