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Google Self-Driving Car Project | SXSW Interactive 2016

Chris Urmson's SXSW 2016 talk on Google's self-driving car project, covering 1.3 million self-driven miles and the gap between hype and reality. It shows sensor visualizations and playbacks of hard situations the cars met, and discusses failures such as the low-speed bus collision.

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Why HN readers recommended it

HN returns to it repeatedly as one of the best candid talks on how a real self-driving system sees the road and where it struggles.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
SXSW
Topic
self-driving cars
Format
talk
Level
general
HN recommenders in dataset
2
HN mentions in dataset
17
Recommendation years in dataset
2016–2018

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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  • On a related note, here's Chris Urmson's long talk at SXSW on how Google does automatic driving.[1] This is worth watching. He shows what Google cars sense and gives an overview of how they analyze the data. This is the first time Google has released …

    Animats on Hacker News · 2016-07
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  • That's Chris Urmson's talk at SXSW in 2016 [1], which has been widely viewed. It's one of the best talks on the subject. He said "How quickly can we get this into people's hands? If you read the papers, you see maybe it's three years, …

    Animats on Hacker News · 2018-07
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  • This was a good presentation by the Google team: [VIDEO] I believe they say in there that they got highway driving down really early on. They have been focusing on urban driving for the last few years.

    kyrra on Hacker News · 2016-05
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