Chris Urmson: How a driverless car sees the road

Why it was recommended

This video shows why staying in your lane on a highway (what Tesla autopilot does) and dealing with city streets are two just completely different things

Recommendationhaberman · Original2016-08

What it covers

Chris Urmson, head of Google's self-driving car program, shows footage of how the car perceives the road and decides what to do. Examples include cyclist hand signals, school. It is for a general viewer who does not plan to take a prerequisite first.

Video details

Channel

TED

Length

15 min 30 sec

Year

2015

More in this topic

• How Self-Driving Cars will Destroy Cities (and what to do about it)
• Google Self-Driving Car Project | SXSW Interactive 2016
• Andrej Karpathy - AI for Full-Self Driving at Tesla
• George Hotz: Comma.ai, OpenPilot, and Autonomous Vehicles | Lex Fridman Podcast #31
• Traffic Has a Perfect Solution. Humans Are the Problem.
• George Hotz: Hacking the Simulation & Learning to Drive with Neural Nets | Lex Fridman Podcast #132