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Chris Urmson: How a driverless car sees the road

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Chris Urmson: How a driverless car sees the road

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 buses, police officers and complex intersections.

Used repeatedly in self-driving threads as a demonstration of how many real-world edge cases the Google/Waymo system already handled.

9 Hacker News mentions · 2015–2022

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