| ▲ | simmonmt 2 hours ago |
| > When they want data about a school intersection in SF at a certain time of day, they just... synthetically generate it and simulate I think it's more about detecting changes to the world. You need boots on the ground, so to speak, to see that new speed limit sign or the new lane paint. The Waymo vehicle can no doubt react to changes in the world when it encounters them, relaying them back to the mothership, but it's better to know about them in advance. |
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| ▲ | ra7 an hour ago | parent | next [-] |
| Most AVs, definitely Waymo vehicles, are self mapping. They can detect environment changes and relay it to the entire fleet. That's because they map using the same vehicles as the fleet. |
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| ▲ | MagicMoonlight 42 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| That’s dumb then. It shows it’s just brute force rather than AI. A human doesn’t need to be shown every single road that exists in order to drive. |
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| ▲ | delfinom an hour ago | parent | prev [-] |
| >You need boots on the ground, so to speak, to see that new speed limit sign or the new lane paint. It'll shock you to know that you can simply get this from governments, some even provide this in API form |
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| ▲ | dmd 41 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | It probably won't shock you to know that those sources of data can be months to even years delayed from what's actually out in the world. | |
| ▲ | KaiserPro 26 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | no visual data, you need picture data for that. companies like NC tech do it for like $1m a city. or thereabouts. | |
| ▲ | paganel 41 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | > or the new lane paint. I'd be surprised if this is a thing outside the biggest US (and European, for that matter) cities, judging from Google StreetView there are lots of streets in US cities/towns with almost no paint lines at all. | | |
| ▲ | msm_ 37 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Do you mean in the API? I live in an European country and I don't think I ever saw an asphalt road without paint lines. This varies a lot between countries though. | | |
| ▲ | ThunderSizzle 27 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Many American roads don't have lines. Residential roads, parking lots, many business driveways have limited markings. Then there's roads with just the center line markers with no road should markings. Then there's a whole class of roads of lines over "demarked" old lines that weren't demarked well, or lines fading that should've been painted a long time ago. I'm surprised you've never seen a non-perfect road? |
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