Re:Google Street View: A wolf in sheep’s clothing
by jessriedel on Tuesday June 05, 2012 @08:36PM
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According to this blog post, the map data is pretty important.
> Two things seem particularly interesting about Google's approach. First, [Google's driverless car] relies on very detailed maps of the roads and terrain, something that Urmson said is essential to determine accurately where the car is. Using GPS-based techniques alone, he said, the location could be off by several meters.
http://jalopnik.com/5851324/how-googles-self+driving-car-wor...
Do you know for sure that they don't use Google Street view data? If so, I think you're unusual in knowing that.
The cars don't follow predetermined routes. At present they do learn routes, but not using Google Street View data. Actually, the opposite is true, the intention is for the diver-less cars to generate 3d data for street view.