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Grand Theft Auto V Is Being Used To Help Teach Self-Driving Cars (bloomberg.com)
An anonymous reader quotes Bloomberg:
In the race to the autonomous revolution, developers have realized there aren't enough hours in a day to clock the real-world miles needed to teach cars how to drive themselves. Which is why Grand Theft Auto V is in the mix... Last year, scientists from Darmstadt University of Technology in Germany and Intel Labs developed a way to pull visual information from Grand Theft Auto V. Now some researchers are deriving algorithms from GTAV software that's been tweaked for use in the burgeoning self-driving sector. The latest in the franchise from publisher Rockstar Games Inc. is just about as good as reality, with 262 types of vehicles, more than 1,000 different unpredictable pedestrians and animals, 14 weather conditions and countless bridges, traffic signals, tunnels and intersections...
The idea isn't that the highways and byways of the fictional city of Los Santos would ever be a substitute for bona fide asphalt. But the game "is the richest virtual environment that we could extract data from," said Alain Kornhauser, a Princeton University professor of operations research and financial engineering who advises the Princeton Autonomous Vehicle Engineering team.
The idea isn't that the highways and byways of the fictional city of Los Santos would ever be a substitute for bona fide asphalt. But the game "is the richest virtual environment that we could extract data from," said Alain Kornhauser, a Princeton University professor of operations research and financial engineering who advises the Princeton Autonomous Vehicle Engineering team.
So will Waymo vehicles elect to stop for prostitutes or just run them over?
Laws are rules for the court, but merely a bottom bar to hit for life. Think beyond laws in your actions always.
Your eyes don't have enough parallax for depth perception to be that accurate in the ranges needed for driving. Each pixel does not have to be independently matched.
Which isn't to gloss over the difficulties to 3d vision in real time. The depth perception part is solved by two meters of parallax.
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Do you have any sources on light frequencies being used for depth perception? I've never heard of this before. 3d movies and vr headsets work just fine even though the displays are limited by bitdepth.
It's all fun and games until your physical car decides to stop for hot coffee.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
Found the DeVry biology grad.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."