Tim Y.C 🌐🌍Self driving cars is a cultural phenomenon that could only arise on the west coast USA. No sane individual would look at the streets of NYC and convince themselves that they could get a car to navigate through it on its own. Are there even any self driving companies based out of the East Coast USA? @notjustbikes #autopilot #selfDrivingCar #tesla #publictransit #transit
michelle.cat@clsytim @notjustbikes Drones need special FAA clearance to fly in flight restricted areas something similar can be done with autonomous cars the geoboundaries change periodically based on a number of conditions open highways on a clear day yes , highways in inclement weather no , busy surface roads no
@clsytim @notjustbikes commercial services might get more latitude likewise different restrictions if there is a driver on board or not
@clsytim @notjustbikes well it looks like Tesla is admitting defeat it was an ignorant move removing radar , sacrificing safety over costs probably too late to avoid lawsuits though https://electrek.co/2022/12/06/tesla-radar-car-next-month-self-driving-suite-concerns/
@clsytim @notjustbikes if LiDAR or radar detects and obstacle it should trigger a braking event or return driver control regardless if the computer vision system detected it or. Not , take a space launch a single negative on a polled system can cancel as launch more sensors in self driving cars make them safer not less safer
@mcvresearch personally im bearish on sensor fusion system that depends on vision as primary input. While I understand the argument is "humans use vision...so...duh", but we actually use vision for obstacle avoidance mainly in the same way as a point cloud system that a LIDAR produces. We recognize distances to edges and vertices and make decisions based on those. You can actually see or reliance on this very easily when you put a human in a "mirror house". We still have "vision" but it is useless without understanding bounds on edges and vertices.
You could further argue that you can develop these point clouds from stereoscopic vision, but, one, you have a lot of noise and, two, i dont think you will be able to compute results at the same fortitude as millions of years of evolution has ingrained in humans #selfDrivingCar #computer #computervision #AI
@clsytim agree you see by my posts I am not an advocate of vision only systems
@mcvresearch but also, disclaimer, i could totally be out of my league here. Its been roughly 3 years since I did anything advanced in computer vision and im sure the field has progressed since then