Google and Waymo are tackling the biggest obstacles on the way to truly autonomous vehicles

Google and Waymo are tackling the biggest obstacles on the way to truly autonomous vehicles
By Tristan Greene


At Google IO today Waymo took the stage to discuss self-driving cars. Its big pitch: Waymo and Google have “unlocked truly autonomous vehicles.” First up, Waymo and Google are making driverless cars safer for pedestrians. Google Brain and Waymo were able to to reduce the error-rate for detecting pedestrians by 100X (not 100 percent, but still!). The company showed off its AI’s ability to detect pedestrians in incredibly obscure situations. Google’s new advances make it possible for driverless cars to detect pedestrians in ways that people may not be able to themselves. In one image it was able to pick…

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