Another Step Towards the Driverless Car

jtogel writes "At Essex, we have for some time been working on automatically learning how to race cars in simulation. It turns out that a combination of evolutionary algorithms and neural networks can learn how to beat all humans in racing games, and also come up with some quite interesting, novel behaviours, which might one day make their way into commercial racing games. While this is simulation, the race is now on for the real thing — we are setting up a competition for AI developers, where the goal is to win a race between model cars on real tracks. As the cars will be around half a meter long, the cost of participating will be a fraction of that for the famous DARPA Grand Challenge, whereas the challenges will be similar in terms of computer vision and AI."

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[Anonymous Coward]

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The best 'driverless car'

[Anonymous Coward]

Check it out: Horse and Buggy

Biofueled. Organic Waste, extremely low carbon usage or emissions. Manufacturing cost next to nothing. Perfect for around town. Feeling sleepy, go ahead and doze off, the horse knows the way home and can take you there safely. If there is a problem, the horse stops until you wake up. (this day in age perhaps an alarm could sound.)

This AI transportation was used for hundreds of years successfully. Now it has taken us a hundred years of research and billions of dollars and billions of tons of CO2 and every other pollution to create a 'driverless car.' What progress.