Valuable lessons learned about AI self-driving cars when a kitten was hiding underneath one, here's the scoop.
The idea is that you might notice a flat tire, or maybe a ding or dent in the exterior, etc.
When my children were toddlers, it seemed like they used to regularly leave a toy behind my parked car. The car was usually seated on an outdoor pad in our front yard and was slightly on an incline. It was easy for the kids to inadvertently leave a toy laying here or there. It was equally easy for me to be in a hurry, rushing to work, and hastily back down the driveway without knowing that a toy was about to get summarily crushed.
Before jumping into the details, I’d like to further clarify what is meant when referring to true self-driving cars.As a clarification, true self-driving cars are ones that the AI drives the car entirely on its own and there isn’t any human assistance during the driving task. Since semi-autonomous cars require a human driver, the adoption of those types of cars won’t be markedly different than driving conventional vehicles, so there’s not much new per se to cover about them on this topic .
Self-driving cars are usually outfitted with a sensor suite consisting of video cameras, radar, LIDAR, ultrasonic units, thermal imaging devices, and the like. Not all brands or models will necessarily have the same set of sensors, such that some automakers and self-driving tech firms are aiming to use only certain kinds of sensing devices and somewhat eschew other such types .
Few self-driving cars have a video camera that is mounted or ostensibly positioned to see under the vehicle . Just don’t tell the kitten that they are ranked as low priority, you might get fervently cat scratched. Of course, this side tangent was based on the premise that the object of interest was detected before it went underneath the autonomous vehicle. If the self-driving car was parked on a driveway and entirely shut off, including all of the usual sensors, there would not be any “before” that could be relied upon to ascertain what might be underneath the vehicle.
The Natural Language Processing component of the AI driving system might engage the human passenger in a brief dialogue. Besides asking where the person wants to go, the AI driving system might also ask the passenger to please glance around and underneath the autonomous vehicle. If the passenger notices anything out of the ordinary, the person could verbally alert the AI driving system accordingly.
All told, asking passengers to look around seems misguided. It could be a temporary and half-baked way to momentarily deal with such issues but ultimately will need a more systemic solution.If you are wondering what else could be done, other than mounting sensors that are oriented to inspect underneath the autonomous vehicle, there is in fact a potential additional solution.Yes, there are various efforts underway of pairing up drones with self-driving cars.
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