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Bicycles & autonomous cars

2017-02-02 23:25:00.468539+01 by Dan Lyke 2 comments

The Self-Driving Car's Bicycle Problem:

However, when it comes to spotting and orienting bikes and bicyclists, performance drops significantly. Deep3DBox is among the best, yet it spots only 74 percent of bikes in the benchmarking test. And though it can orient over 88 percent of the cars in the test images, it scores just 59 percent for the bikes.

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#Comment Re: Bicycles & autonomous cars made: 2017-02-03 13:01:45.551808+01 by: DaveP

Everything I've read so far has said that self-driving cars are going to have the same sorts of problems with motorcycles. Worries me a lot, since I put on a lot of miles on motorcycles every year.

This particular article seems to be 404, though.

#Comment Re: Bicycles & autonomous cars made: 2017-02-03 17:26:24.727224+01 by: Dan Lyke

Let's see if this one works.

The web isn't that hard, why do people keep breaking it? Grrrr...