"No one is harder on a talented person than the person themselves" - Linda Wilkinson ; "Trust your guts and don't follow the herd" ; "Validate direction not destination" ;

February 03, 2019

Day #204 - MIT Self-Driving Cars: State of the Art (2019)

Key Lessons
  • Improve Access to mobility, increase efficiency, save lives


  • Reduce stress / emotion in travel
  • Save Lives / prevent crash, Every 23 seconds someone dies in Auto-Crash
  • Waymo Autonomous 1 Million miles, 1 billion miles reached by Tesla Semi-Autonomous
  • Largest Deployment of NN in the world that has direct impact on human life
  • Image Classification on Imagenet -> Human Life
  • One pedestrian fatality in Uber, Third fatality in Tesla
  • Autopilot is driven on particular kinds of roads
  • 3 Fatalities is not a large number to make significant conclusions
  • Many Trial runs of autonomous tests carried out
  • Predictions - commercially viable at scale
  • 2020 onwards you will see them hitting on road


  • Levels of Autonomy
  • Up to 3 Drivers responsible
  • > 3 Car handles


  • Semi Autonomous - Autonomous transition of vehicles
  • Higher goals of reducing emissions
  • Tunnels / Connected Train setup with cars




  • Personalised flying cars
  • Split second decision in limited visibility conditions/weather/ non-verbal pedestrian communications 




  • Radar / Sensors for Obstacle detection and obstacle avoidance
  • LIDAR expensive, Higher resolution, 360-degree visibility
  • Fail Safe with both approach, economical approach
  • Fully Autonomous - Waymo


Happy Mastering DL!!!

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