• @rsuri
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    1 year ago

    Random question I’ve always wondered about in case anyone is more familiar with these systems than me. My understanding is that autopilot relies on optical sensors exclusively. And image recognition tends to rely on getting loads of data to recognize particular objects. But what if there’s an object not in the training data, like a boulder in a weird shape? Can autopilot tell anything is there at all?

    • Captain Janeway
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      101 year ago

      Yeah obstructions can be generalized to a road being blocked. Object recognition includes recognizing the shape of an object via curves, shadows, depth, etc. You don’t need to know it’s a boulder to know a large object is in the road.

    • @topinambour_rex
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      51 year ago

      Something like snow? The vehicle ignores what to do or where to go.