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Google Self-Driving Car Project | SXSW Interactive 2016

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What it is

Chris Urmson's SXSW 2016 talk on Google's self-driving car project, covering 1.3 million self-driven miles and the gap between hype and reality. It shows sensor visualizations and playbacks of hard situations the cars met, and discusses failures such as the low-speed bus collision.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN returns to it repeatedly as one of the best candid talks on how a real self-driving system sees the road and where it struggles.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 7 different months
  • 2 strong recommendations
  • first 2016, last 2018

What HN commenters said

  1. “If you're going to comment on automatic driving, you need to see this.”

    Detailed look at sensor data, bus collision and hard driving cases

    Animats, 2016-07 · Strong recommendation · in “Tesla Model S Autopilot Reliability – Why Americans Should Love Tesla”

  2. “This was a good presentation by the Google team”

    Google team presentation noting early highway driving success

    kyrra, 2016-05 · Recommendation · in “Four hundred miles with Tesla’s autopilot forced me to trust the machine”

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

Topics: waymo, google self-driving car, lidar, autonomous driving, sensor data

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