THE VIDEO SHELF · self-driving cars
Chris Urmson: How a driverless car sees the road
Chris Urmson, head of Google's self-driving car program, shows footage of how the car perceives the road and decides what to do. Examples include cyclist hand signals, school buses, police officers and complex intersections.
Why HN readers recommended it
Used repeatedly in self-driving threads as a demonstration of how many real-world edge cases the Google/Waymo system already handled.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- TED
- Topic
- self-driving cars
- Format
- talk
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 9
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2015–2022
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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This is why Google is training their cars now in the real world to handle all of these kinds of things. Here's a Ted Talk [0] from 2015 where the head of their self driving unit makes the case for full autonomy vs. semi-autonomous because …
drewnick on Hacker News · 2016-08
In Ford Promises Fleets of Driverless Cars Within Five Years> I realise it's not apples to apples and that Google's cars may be more autonomous for now. I think that is an understatement. This video shows why staying in your lane on a highway (what Tesla autopilot does) and dealing with city streets are …
haberman on Hacker News · 2016-08
In The Google X moonshot factory is struggling to get products out the door
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