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NVIDIA To Install Computers In Cars To Teach Them How To Drive

Posted by Soulskill on from the learn-by-doing dept.

jfruh writes: NVIDIA has unveiled the Drive PX, a $10,000 computer that will be installed in cars and gather data about how to react to driving obstacles. "Driving is not about detecting, driving is a learned behavior," said Jen Hsun Huang, CEO of NVIDIA. The data collected by Drive PXes will be shared, allowing cars to learn the right and wrong reactions to different situations, essentially figuring out what to do from experience rather than a rigid set of pre-defined situations.

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  1. Learning trumps instincts by rmdingler · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Even for the often flawed human drivers, this rings true. It seems one of the more common single vehicle highway accidents is the slight drift off the road followed by the panicked, aggressive over-correction... experience teaches us to gradually bring the vehicle back in line by fighting the gut-reaction to hurry.

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    Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

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  2. Defeating the purpose by JeffOwl · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What are they going to learn? How to not pay attention; how to not allow other vehicles to merge; how to force their way in when not allowed to merge; how to tailgate; how to brake check when others are tailgating; how to not use turn signals; what type of actions from other vehicles should cause them to rage; how to rage properly; how to ignore all the signs leading up to your exit and then cut across three lanes to take it at the last second; how to drive slow in the fast lane; how to pass when there isn't really room; how close they can get to a bicycle without actually hitting it; or hitting it, either way; ... etc..

    1. Re:Defeating the purpose by Wycliffe · · Score: 4, Insightful

      What are they going to learn?

      My guess is that they are going to learn what causes accidents and what doesn't cause accidents.
      We humans are really really bad at driving. You're basically stating all the bad things that we do.
      That is good input for a computer because it can see what causes accidents and remember not to
      do that and compare it to what doesn't cause accidents. I'm not sure I would trust a system like
      this to drive a car but it could easily be used to grade a computer (or a person) on their driving
      style.

  3. Re:How's that again? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How about: "I have to always be vigilant since at any time some idiot might slam on their brakes for no apparent reason, and sometimes that idiot might even be me!?