Re:Despite High Hopes, Self-Driving Cars Are ‘Way in the Fut...
by AnimalMuppet on Wednesday July 17, 2019 @01:46PM
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It's worse than that. That small thing heading toward the road... was that a leaf blown by the wind, or was it a ball? If it's a ball, you'd better be already braking, because a kid is likely coming right behind it, and paying attention to the ball rather than the road. If it's a leaf, though... you don't want to hit the brakes for every blowing leaf.
Re:Despite High Hopes, Self-Driving Cars Are ‘Way in the Fut...
by mamon on Wednesday July 17, 2019 @07:33PM
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even worse: sometimes kids actually do chase leaves on the wind, or butterflies.
Re:Despite High Hopes, Self-Driving Cars Are ‘Way in the Fut...
by jacques_chester on Wednesday July 17, 2019 @07:17PM
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> There's no need for a theory of mind - the self driving car can identify the kid as a pedestrian, recognize that it started moving in a possible collision course, then disappeared, thus prompting either slowing down to a non-fatal speed until the truck has been passed.
So ... a theory of mind.
Children playing in the street are a common occurrence in residential areas, I see no reason why you would not develop a set of rules and heuristics to handle them. Identifying a pedestrian as child, and knowing whether it is running or playing, is well within the capabilities of modern computer vision.