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briandmyers  ·  3171 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: [Annotated] Why Cities Aren’t Ready for the Driverless Car

    Most self driving systems today are using neural networks

No offense intended, but colour me skeptical - can you support this? I believe there's a lot of research into neural networks for pedstrian identification etc, but I've never seen any indication that (for example) Google Chauffeur uses neural networks at all. Again, they appear to be throwing brute-force at the problem.

[edit] Details about self-driving software are hard to find; however, I did find this little hint (from this article http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/autonomous-driverless-car-brain/ )

    Yet as smart as today's cars may seem, they are cognitive toddlers. In a car brain, software, processors and an operating system need to run algorithms that determine what the car should do, and these decisions must be made quickly.