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Chris Urmson: How a driverless car sees the road

TED · talk · Watch on YouTube

Self-driving & autonomous vehicles

What it is

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 Hacker News recommends it

Used repeatedly in self-driving threads as a demonstration of how many real-world edge cases the Google/Waymo system already handled.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 1 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2015, last 2022

What HN commenters said

  1. “makes the case for full autonomy vs. semi-autonomous because the semi-autonomous is good enough where people trust it, but not good enough to be trusted.”

    Case for full autonomy over semi-autonomous; lidar interactions.

    drewnick, 2016-08 · Recommendation · in “Ford Promises Fleets of Driverless Cars Within Five Years”

  2. “This video shows why staying in your lane on a highway (what Tesla autopilot does) and dealing with city streets are two just completely different things”

    Shows city-street driving is harder than highway lane keeping.

    haberman, 2016-08 · Recommendation · in “The Google X moonshot factory is struggling to get products out the door”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: google self-driving car, waymo, ted talk, autonomous vehicles, perception

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