Adding a detail to the other comments saying “robustness is hard” – I heard from someone working at a Self Driving Car company that right now, you basically need training data to cover every edge case individually. i.e. the car can drive, and it knows when to break normally, but it doesn’t know about school buses and how those are subtly different. Or it doesn’t know about snow. etc.
So you end up getting specific whitelisted streets that auto-automobiles are allowed to drive on, and need to slowly expand the whitelisted area with exhaustive data and testing.
(But, there are totally specific neighborhoods in SF where self-driving cars are legal and in-use)
Adding a detail to the other comments saying “robustness is hard” – I heard from someone working at a Self Driving Car company that right now, you basically need training data to cover every edge case individually. i.e. the car can drive, and it knows when to break normally, but it doesn’t know about school buses and how those are subtly different. Or it doesn’t know about snow. etc.
So you end up getting specific whitelisted streets that auto-automobiles are allowed to drive on, and need to slowly expand the whitelisted area with exhaustive data and testing.
(But, there are totally specific neighborhoods in SF where self-driving cars are legal and in-use)