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NVIDIA To Install Computers In Cars To Teach Them How To Drive
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.
a behavior is: observable activity in a human or animal. the aggregate of responses to internal and external stimuli. a stereotyped, species-specific activity, as a courtship dance or startle reflex.
Driving is the appliaction of education, study, and practice of a specific set of rules and regulations pertaining to a specific type of motorized vehicle. the reason we have different licenses for motorcycles, cars, and semi tractor trailers is more than enough to discredit the idea that driving is a behavior itself. You could classify things like tailgating and jackrabbit starts as poor behaviors associated with operating a motor vehicle, but driving is far more of a learned skill than an expression of ones inability to cancel a turn signal.
if we distilled driving to behavior, as nvidia insists, we would have a car that refused to turn its headlights on in the rain and couldnt properly allow vehicles to overtake while passing. It would go 25 miles over the speed limit, ignore school zones, and divert 100% of its resources to text messages and cellular communication at random intervals. It would occasionally ignore green lights and red lights, and it would tailgate and merge without signaling almost religiously. it would erroneously yield right of way at a roundabout, it would ignore speed limits in construction zones, and it would short-stop at continuous merge lanes and wait for traffic to pass before entering. In short, it would be the single most dangerous thing on any tarmac or asphalt since Gary Busey.
Good people go to bed earlier.
This is an indispensable aspect of the road to automated driving, so to speak. Yes, learning human behaviour behind the wheel would be detrimental if it were applied directly to the AI's own driving algorithms, but consider that it's going to need to anticipate the actions of all the human drivers around it. Yes, I would like my self-driving car to have a very fine-tuned set of expectations for the idiocy it'll encounter.