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#217 – Rodney Brooks: Robotics

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How Hard Is the Driving Problem as It Stands?

I am surprised how well, how many edge cases of machine learning and vision-based methods can cover. I think it makes sense on freeways at night for the trucks to go autonomously. But then how do you get on to an off of the freeway? Do you need to have the human in there to do that? Or can you get rid of the human? So I think there's ways to get there, but it's an infrastructure argument because the long tail of cases is very long.

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