The Importance of Bayesian Reasoning

If you want to know the probability of a cause given an effect there's no way to collect that data using just straight statistics. You can derive it using Bayes rule using things that are collectable and data that is available to you. The original version of the Google car now today would use machine learning but back in the day it did not use any machine learning It used the theory of probabilistic robots which were techniques that model probability distributions of where the car is by comparing it to what it expects to see using Google Maps.