THE VIDEO SHELF · self-driving cars
How Google's Self-Driving Car Works
Part 2 of the IROS 2011 keynote by Sebastian Thrun and Chris Urmson on Google's self-driving car. It shows how the car perceives its surroundings with a lidar point cloud and recognizes traffic lights and pedestrians. The audio is poor because it was recorded on a pocket camcorder.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN recommends it as a technical talk aimed at a real engineering audience, with live demos of perception and pre-mapped roads.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- IEEE Spectrum
- Topic
- self-driving cars
- Format
- talk
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 7
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2012–2016
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From the original HN conversations
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[VIDEO] 9:00 has a good example, recognizing the state of a traffic light, other cars and pedestrians at an intersection, but lots of cool videos starting around 3:40. The whole talk is awesome and a presentation for an actual technical audience, too.
magicalist on Hacker News · 2012-03
In Google's self driving cars can navigate drive-through restaurants.There's a great presentation about Google's self-driving car here (check the second half for video of the real-time telemetry that it gathers): [VIDEO] One of the things that I found really interesting is how the car inches forward at a stop sign in order to …
iharris on Hacker News · 2013-04
In Google's self-driving car gathers almost 1 GB/sec
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