HackerChris Urmson: How a driverless car sees the road
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Chris Urmson uses a pedestrian who might step into the road to show how an autonomous vehicle can slow down to observe. Available actions change when a system needs to commit to a prediction.
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So this pedestrian here might be stepping into the road, might not be.Whereas a self-driving system can look at that pedestrian and say, I don't know what they're about to do, slow down, take a better look, and then react appropriately after that.