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Re:Google: Self-driving cars in 3-5 years. Feds: Not so fast by mej10 on Friday February 08, 2013 @11:06AM (#5188471)
I was surprised by how understandable the concepts are behind this stuff. I second this recommendation. They are really cool algorithms.

For real life, there is obviously a huge engineering component, but you can definitely see how the ideas could come together to build something like the automated cars.

Re:Google: Self-driving cars in 3-5 years. Feds: Not so fast by jmaygarden on Friday February 08, 2013 @11:32AM (#5188640)
Exactly! I linked to Wikipedia for contrast with how unintelligibly these topics are often presented for we mere laymen.