One of the reasons I'm looking forward to robot cars is the dramatic increase in safety I expect. A robot driving algorithm can be run through millions of driving simulations, learning how to respond to vastly more scenarios than most humans could be expected to learn.
"For a long time I have promoted the idea of an open source simulator. Now two projects are underway.
The first is the project Apollo simulator from Baidu and a new entrant called Carla is also in the game.
This is good to see, but I hope the two simulators also work together. One real strength of an open platform simulator is that people all around the world can contribute scenarios to it, and then every car developer can test their system in those scenarios. We want every car tested in every scenario that anybody can think of.
Waymo has developed its own simulator, and fed it with every strange thing their cars have encountered in 5m kilometers of real world driving. It's one of the things that give them an edge. They've also loaded the simulator with everything their team members can think of. This way, their driving system has the experience of seeing and trying out every odd situation that will be encounter in many lifetimes of human driving, and eventually on every type of road."
http://ideas.4brad.com/uber-buys-24000-volvos-trolley-problems-get-scarier-and-liability
"For a long time I have promoted the idea of an open source simulator. Now two projects are underway.
The first is the project Apollo simulator from Baidu and a new entrant called Carla is also in the game.
This is good to see, but I hope the two simulators also work together. One real strength of an open platform simulator is that people all around the world can contribute scenarios to it, and then every car developer can test their system in those scenarios. We want every car tested in every scenario that anybody can think of.
Waymo has developed its own simulator, and fed it with every strange thing their cars have encountered in 5m kilometers of real world driving. It's one of the things that give them an edge. They've also loaded the simulator with everything their team members can think of. This way, their driving system has the experience of seeing and trying out every odd situation that will be encounter in many lifetimes of human driving, and eventually on every type of road."
http://ideas.4brad.com/uber-buys-24000-volvos-trolley-problems-get-scarier-and-liability