Compliments of The Atlantic
Exactly one year ago, our friends at The Atlantic published an article uncovering how Google’s self-driving cars work. The general population assumes driverless cars are super intelligent machines that can see everything in the world. Thanks to flashy marketing, the public bought into this fantasy. It turns out, there’s a man behind the curtain telling the car where most of the world’s objects are.
Most of the real work is being done behind the scenes, ahead of time. You see, self-driving cars have pre-saved 3D maps of their environments. Think of a Tron-like world where vehicles travel on a clearly outlined and determined track...
Compliments of The Atlantic
This approach makes self-driving cars possible given today’s computing capabilities. Without this technique, driverless cars would not be possible...