Comment by fooker
9 years ago
Human beings can not drive in all conditions in India.
Just to get our car out of the garage, I had to plead and negotiate with N vegetable vendors with makeshift stores on the road.
Also: bicycles, motorbikes, rickshaws(in human pulled, CNG and electric varieties!)and pedestrians mixed in traffic everywhere.
Yep, I have a feeling that for driving in India/Iran/Pakistan/Bangladesh you're going to need a strong AI to negotiate with the street vendors. In Iran I even had a particularly... enthusiastic flower seller actually maneuver himself to make it even harder to drive away.
Not to take away from anyone's work in this area, but I have no idea how long it'll take to go from "works in America" to "works in India". In many countries the safest option (to evade disaster) can occasionally be "floor it and break the speed limit" to get away from x dangerous thing. I'm not sure if that's something that Google is willing to write into an AI.
This will require something like Rick's (from Rick and Morty) car/spaceship.
>>I had to plead and negotiate with N vegetable vendors with makeshift stores on the road.
This is a very practical test case for a car on a road. Not just in India but anywhere in the world.
Instead of N vegetable vendors you could have N traffic cops. How do you manage the human interaction part in the self driving car?