How Google's Self-Driving Car Works
<p>Oct 06, 2014 06:45 PM see article attached in other node.</p>
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IEEE Spectrum video presentation by Sebast. Thrun. from Oct 2011.
with Chris Urmson;</p>
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radars also...</p>
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LIDAR is heart of system; angle effect: density decr as distance incr.
run SLAM on it; build texture model of the world.</p>
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Kalman particle filter; gps can be off by 3 to 5 meters (and can have drop outs)
what's there all the time vs moving/ transitory things.
put in traffic controls; detect traffic light state;
track cars;</p>
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use priors on where lane should be;
need to slide around a bicyclist ... min 8+;</p>
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pedestrain stepping into the road and running across... we yield to him;</p>
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intersection behavior (wait for person on your R; wait for the opposite;
wait for person on your L;</p>
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we go cautiously (to signal to the other drivers that we will be going);</p>
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rare events;</p>
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watch last minute! car racing around the track with shocked Chris in it and
bold racing bkward parking!</p>
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