Re:California halts Pony.ai's driverless testing permit afte...
by faeyanpiraat on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @04:20AM
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When I was driving a 2014 Volvo, it also automatically stopped before hitting a stationary cardboard box (up to 30 kph)
When the vehicle is stationary, the radar data has to be heavily filtered because radar has poor angular resolution and there are a lot of other stationary objects, many that you don't want to stop for at similar angles, like overhead road signs. That means you're relying purely on vision, which alone has a lot of false positives and negatives, so detection thresholds need to be set much lower.
Doesn't mean it won't work. Just means it's less likely to work, especially in the dark and the rain, where radar would normally be a big part of the signal.