Chris Urmson: How a driverless car sees the road
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- čas přidán 25. 06. 2015
- Statistically, the least reliable part of the car is ... the driver. Chris Urmson heads up Google's driverless car program, one of several efforts to remove humans from the driver's seat. He talks about where his program is right now, and shares fascinating footage that shows how the car sees the road and makes autonomous decisions about what to do next.
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Sorry Officer.
The car is drunk...
Ethanol in the fuel
Chris now runs Aurora, which bought Uber's self-driving division.
I want one.
I want one now.
...I want it to be affordable too.
I wanna see more dumb and funny moments from the testings like the car driving in middle of the 2 cars and that woman chasing a duck lmao.
rich get richer smh :/
This is the kind of videos I want from TED! this was amazing.
Fantastic! Great presentation!👍
I better buy my own track before human driving becomes illegal
Now it's 2020, I am wondering if his older son has got his driver's license :D
Now it is 2023 and still
@@handakinatamerat5418its 2024 and
In this useful talk, Chris Urmson exhibits how a driver-less car sees the road. Highly futuristic and informative. Recommended to everyone.
excellent presentation and helps allay some of the fears that people have of "a dumb, blind computer", as we can see the reality is that the technology is now so advanced it can make superior decisions over humans in almost all cases, and not only in realtime but also predictive. In ~100 of whatever (much less i guess) years people will look back "remember back when everyone drove cars and there were so many crashes and trafficjams!? so crazy!"
Kk
I cant wait to play gran turismo while siting in my driverless car!
I'll replace gran turismo with Mario Kart.
will it stop for a hitchhiker?
Only if the hitchhiker is a beautiful woman. If you purchase the upgrade package, the car diagnoses if the woman's secretly a man.
Only in Winslow, Arizona
Really impressive. I am curious how those cars will handle things like pot holes, snowy roads, heavy rain, etc.
More companies and also governments need to collaborate to bring driverless cars to our roads.
***** these cars have much better reaction and situational awareness, so i believe self driving cars will handle those problems better than human do.
***** AFAIK Googles car can't operate in heavy snow or rain due to it interfering with the cars sensors.
dachr2 machine vision will be able to deal with it, maybe not now, but soon enough for LIDAR problems to go away
Taxi drivers will riot, can't wait :D it will be so much fun to watch them try to stop an inevitable change with barbaric methods such as violent protests.
Mnakekeli Ngcamphalala Taxi drivers in my city, Lisbon, are crazy. They try to fight every new law that comes. They even made the government ban "Uber" from the city.Their reaction to SDCs will be very, very fun to watch. :D
The sooner the better. The guy said 4.5 years. I hope so.
We live in exciting times.
I love these comments, it shows how people are afraid of the unknown..
I like driving sometimes, I'm gonna miss it. But there are too many stupid people on our roads today and they can't be trusted.
+young 95 texting
What it shows are people who are awakened and aware of their rights as living sentient human beings, unlike braindead, brainwashed drones like you who will agree to anything that they're told to.
I've seen a graph! I'm sold!
I had no idea that it was already this advanced. I am extremely impressed by what they've already accomplished, and am quite a bit more comfortable with the idea of letting a computer do the boring bits for me.
TheMohawkNinja It's great.
+TheMohawkNinja I'm sure it could be even farther along but the companies are terrified of causing the first crash and the public outcry that would cause. Humans are terrible at judging danger. Almost no one is scared of being a passenger in a car but plenty are scared to fly yet you run a much greater risk of dying in a car then a plane. If we were logical we would let these cars on the road and be happy with the number of deaths they prevent when compared to the tiny amount of deaths they cause.
+bensemus x i agree
+bensemus x true true. But I think google cars (right now) might have a very defensive driving style (probably to an extend that it's impractical) just to avoid accidents and thereby public outcry at all costs
Leo1239150 So my comment is about 6 months old and no offence but I don't see what your comment adds to mine...
What you said "just to avoid accidents and thereby public outcry at all costs".
What I said 6 months ago "companies are terrified of causing the first crash and the public outcry that would cause".
I even go on to explain why humans are having a hard time accepting self driving cars.
I can't wait!
This is really cool and exciting!
fantastic stuff
Civil Engineer professor told me 25 yrs ago of this concept would take place in the future which is NOW. There are cpt robots in warehouses that follow a metal line in the floor, drop the product and go get another. They also detect obstructions and stop and go when cleared but there are crashes when a human is driving a forklift. Good technology.
Awesome! Those guys who said "Make the world a better place" should see this car.
I'm in the future 2024
Two words. Natural selection.
It is June, 2019. As the technology gets better, the challenge of self driving car continues to grow bigger.
Its February 2024, The Technologie getting better .
This guy is awesome
That is why I subscribed to TED.
Could you imagine getting into your own short length bus sitting/ lying down to finish a late night sleepless night or maybe making coffee and breakfast as the bus drives itself on your commute.Those long commutes would fly by if you finished off sleeping on the way to work. The bus alerts you at your destination to wake you up.
It's been a few years since this video. How about posting a link to an update on their progress.
I'm a huge supporter of self driving and i really hope they succeed.👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
THIS is why I subbed to TED.
I am curious what kind of simulation method they used to simulate the environment on the road for the autonomous? Really appreciate!!!
It won't be long until *you* driving will be illegal!
Bass Player Good :)
Bass Player I could definitely see health/life insurance being more expensive for drivers who choose to self-drive.
Bass Player That would be horrible.
Bass Player The only people driving cars would be racers
Bass Player I disagree, it's still quite legal to ride a bicycle, ride a horse, drive a farm vehicle on the road - recreational driving won't be banned. The licensing however may change.
imagine +sensors ,stunning idea like other machines work. no human misunderstanding .no tension no memoryloss
pretty interesting how this car would react on puddles, especially the ones that cover potholes. Or on slippery road?
Also come to think of it...just a trifle...but steering wheel is no longer required as well as pedals and etc. So an additional passenger could get in (!). And interior redesigning would be required then. By the way even mirrors wouldn't be necessary :D
Hmm...what about trucks, international transportations? drivers would be required only for looking after loading/unloading and documents? And more than that, 'drivers' would be finally able to sleep when 'driving' :D
Anyway, it's a really thrilling topic! Looks like utopia, but sounds really outstanding!
11:36 LOL? btw, super curious to see the cam of the wheel chair chasing the duck
super excited to see this take off, also curious to see how it'll be priced
+Timothy Wu - $30,000 ish to start. The SDC electronics package costs about $5,000.
In a situation like 13:17, a human driver would send warnings by honking his horn so that others don't run over the cyclists. I practically saved the life of a family in that manner. Shouldn't the google car implement this sort of communication as well? I mean, we're expecting a gradual take-over of self-driving cars, so they should have the capability to warn human drivers of impending danger.
+Max Loh don't know. maybe they are working on it. but if all cars are self driving it isn't needed anymore since all self driving cars see it ;)
Michaël De Bruyne I highly doubt the conservative or traditional thinking people will let us take away their sense of control over their car even though it's safer. For a time at least, there will probably be both types of vehicles on the road, so I think this is a much needed feature
i am just back from my 2 driving lesson. i would be soooo happy if a self driving car was already futher devolped and payable :p i am happy that i live in a country where they are alreday chanche laws for it :)
+Max Loh The lights where green, most cars still stopped; if someone honked, I would not take that as a warning for danger, I would take it as someone being in a hurry and annoyed I havent yet moved forward. So I dont think that would have been very helpful.
+Max Loh It should yes, the car should have some kind of threat-meter, if the car predicts a dangerous situation, it should honk, of course!
I see these cars driving through Mountain View Calfornia every day. Another thing I wonder about is what about construction zones where there is a worker directing traffic that has a stop or slow sign and manually routes someone through the zone?
when every car is self driving they'll be able to communicate with eachother and it'll be much more effective
@Peter Kazavis ?
14:10 Now it's 4 years later. Are the Google kid going to get a driver's license or a self driving car? I want answers!
Maybe they'll just give him some Google glasses instead. "Here, now you can pretend you're in a self driving car."
Rest In Peace Michael Hastings.
I assume they use Lidars. The ToF and reflection data provide histograms from which distances and geometries if objects seen along the roads are derived. This gives the point clouds. Do they use neural networks trained beforehand or some classical way to process the raw lidar data to do the perception (object detection)?
Amazing
I love the idea of self driving cars, think of all the possibilities for new exterior and interior designs. If it can drive itself why not just have a vehicle with no seats and one big mattress to lay on or something. So many ideas!
+denshi The only logical thing is to put a Jakuzzi inside.
Because it would give us new leases to spread our communities even further apart and isolate everyone even more. They would still take up the same amount of space in cities, and cities don't have room to spare. Car centered fixes to traffic will never work in cities.
Looks like his sons had to get their drivers licence after all
Big brain man
The biggest advantage will come when the majority of vehicles are self driving. They will be able to communicate with each other and all drive at the same speed, which should be the highest practicle speed for any given road condition or geometry. They will be able to co-ordinate junctions so that they will never need to stop at a cross road or traffic light - they will just thread seamlessly between each other. Should be a big improvement.
Fascinating! They are doing an amazing job.
Sensational
Why is it that every TED Talks has no water for the speakers? Give a thumbs up, so that TED Talks gives them a glass of water!
Imagine, eventually traffic lights could disappear, along with speed limits and parking spots. Just these cars, with the ability to communicate with one another. Easy
Why are you making it out to be like we're going to forget about anyone who isn't on a car. The people developing this software have in mind a woman on a wheelchair chasing a duck on the middle of the street for fuck's sake.
I don't think these cars will ever be allowed to go at very high speeds wherever there's a possibility of a cyclists/people suddenly getting in the way. On these streets, the flow of the traffic would only be improved from what it is now without further risking the lives of pedestrians. As showed in the video. But on highways, where the roads are designed for high speed vehicular traffic, I can surely see this "cars hurtling around at high speeds, in close proximity to each other, communicating with each other". Again, improving on what is already there. With the use of technology.
Michael Stubbs I don’t care about my smartphone manufacturer. Switched from an s7 to an iPhone X and I’m now looking forward to the Samsung s10. If I like the product, I’ll buy it. Don’t really care who made it.
There was a woman on a wheelchair chasing a duck on the middle of the street shown in the video itself as an example of how careful these people are being with the software for these cars.
These companies only care about selling. You’re right. Therefore, they must care about the quality and safety of their products. If these cars fail to improve on our current traffic system as a whole, they won’t sell.
Yielding to pedestrians wouldn’t all of a sudden be thrown out the window because of driverless cars. Space would still be there in between cars to allow for mechanical failure. I don’t understand why you insist on this bumper to bumper non sense.
Hacking is definitely an issue.
Michael Stubbs Dear Mr. Stubbs. I don't agree with most of your stuff, cause we (the people, the society) decide in with way we want to have the new technology. But that means also, we have to decide!
From rise of mankind on we are on a very long way from the past to the future. And don't forget! The future starts now. Just in this second.
I know what you mean by saying: Don't trust them, they don't really care about us.
And you're right, there must be external control.
Too often we have seen, that maximize the profit is the only principle.
It is a question of responsibility.
Where I totally agree is you point about hackability.
Everything that is digital is hackable.
It's a question of capacity and crypt technology.
So, there must! be an emergency button to stop any unfriendly action if, maybe NSA or your personal enemy want to overtake your car( your house etc.)
Don't trust AI. 😄
will they be able to drive itself in cities like delhi, nairobi, etc
Vaibhav Gupta With training I'm sure.
Apjooz there is no lane driving, traffic rules are used as nice to knows instead of being followed correctly, board are not placed properly or are lacking completely.
Vaibhav Gupta well that's an infrastructure problem, sorry.
BunnyCentauri that was kinda what I was asking. does the maps stores the data about speed limit or it can only read sign post.
+Vaibhav Gupta Self-Driving cars will first be a U.S. thing only. Then it will slowly expand to Western Europe, Australia, and China. India won't be getting it for a while, but not because of road infrastructure. While the lack of lanes and road signs does pose a threat, the car would still be able to easily detect incoming vehicles and pedestrians. The big issue would be politics. India's political laws discourage international companies from competing there. It's why there are zero official Apple Stores in India, and why Tesla and other luxury car brands don't directly do business in India. Also, self-driving cars would cost around $100,000 - $200,000 in its first decade of existence, thus pricing out nearly 98% of the Indian population, making selling self-driving cars there a large waste of time and money.
Self-driving cars would certainly make Forza less exciting.
lol
:))))) real talk
didn't know forza could get any less exciting
How can the car drove without the driver. So unbelievable.
I think you could just connect self driving cars with assisting cars in network where self driving cars could warn assisting systems of 'manual' car about danger. This way you can have both worlds at the same time. People who want to sleep, work, read etc. while going somewhere and people who want to drive.
Very promising!!
i'm blind in my right eye and considerable vision loss in my left. There's light at the end of the tunnel!
When i can't legally drive, it's nice to know I won't be stranded in my home
Wow!!Unbelievable!!!
The other day somebody on my left put signals going to the right into the road I came from, but drove forward.
Thiis is amazing technology! I've been literally dreaming about this since I was a kid. Can't wait to have my own personal chauffeur :P
BrutusAlbion I'm 11 and want to actually have fun and drive on my own
Torn. Self driving cars solve a lot of problems and will save lives .. but I like driving!
Beautiful mountain road in the sunshine? OK! Long-range highway driving in heavy traffic at night in the rain? No thanks!
Will cause a lot of problems also?
Self-driving cars are evil.
They may cost more lives....& one could ask who gains most from these autonomous vehicles...is it the manufacturers including the technology & computer companies etc..because it dosn't seem like its your average person who will not be able to afford these very expensive vehicles...well beyond the reach of the average?
How would they cost more lives? Also, they may be expensive at first, but over time they'll be just as expensive as regular cars are now. And it will probably be a normal thing to have a self-driving car.
Just Brilliant !
All we need to do really would be to put the cell phone for map viewing and it will capture images with camera and give feed back to the engine control unit by the cigarette lighter charging cable. Every car can have an auto pilot in the future
Is there anywhere we can go to see the rate (and severity) of accidents that these driverless cars have had? It'd be interesting to see the graphs of accidents per kilometers driven, as time goes on and they improve the programming. Wanna watch that progress
I watch those algorithms at work and all I can think about is how AGI will change everything.
it's a good idea for things like going to and from work because that's when people are the most stressed. but I would much rather drive a car myself.
I rarely apply the breaks while on the freeway, while I see some cars spend more time on the breaks then off the breaks.
Don't tailgate and look past the car in front of you and it is possible to have the need to break less.
Driverless cars are the future of road line striping technology.
Hey Chris, did you boy get the licence finally? :P
what happens if youre in detroit at night time and car stops at the red light?
Maybe in the future when possibly all cars are self driven there could be a matrix type network that all the car are conneted to so that every car knows what every car in their area is going to do, of course u hav to take into consideration cycles ect but it would prevent any vechile accidents
Somehow I think this car will only work in some places, like the US where the road is square-shaped and every sign, lights, street lights, and other infrastructures are good. Imagine this one in my country, where there are tons of motorcycle, lots of people not following the rule, where the traffic jam is 100 times worse than LA rush hour. I know that it has survived 3 million miles, but try this in Jakarta, Indonesia, let's see if it can survive just several hundred miles in the city without any damage to the car.
Nah, it will take more time, but with enough data machines are still better than humans in predicting humans in behaviors like driving.
That 737 prediction though
best thing about driverless cars is more time for myself while i get to work. time is the most precious thing there is.
Works in the city, how will it work for heavy commercial?
I can understand I think just about everything else, but I don't have a good idea about how these cars decide at a stop sign or see a stop light or interpret it. That seems to be hard to figure out to me.
good i am of colombia
regarding 2:00 - time spent commuting to work is not really time wasted. That is a good time to be by yourself, reflect upon the life, listen to podcasts, music or talk with other passangers.
Based on the first 5 min of his talk, I think we should inspect the driver rather than replacing the driver by machine. The former is realistic and the latter is a headache problem because the autonomous car can fail in an unpredictable way.
I'm so looking forward to this. When people driving is what cops look for.
Just think, no more drunk drivers, red light runners, speeders, all that. Sane roadways.
Except that these cars can't even stop at a red light unassisted..... And there are millions of those every single day.
7:45 Beginn of the technoligy side
2 TED videos in a row that aren't about identity politics? This must be bizarro TED
At 7:20, the driver will make a visual contact with the pedestrian to make sure that he saw him. The pedestrian can even wave to the driver to show him to pass, An autonomous car will never understand that.
7:33, a driver assist system could issue an alert to notify driver of uncertainty. I remain skeptical that any system will attain full autonomy without mass adoption.
I need my car for taking a nap during lunch break.
4:10 - 4:45 .. how is that different from how people usually drive in america ?
loooove it
The only question that comes to my mind is how insurance will work for those vehicle. Would it be company based, depending on who you purchased it from?
+dustin munro Could work.
"how hard can it really be?" is that a rhetorical question?
Those cars see the road better than humans
Does the car recognize potholes and speedbumps? It'll be a very bumpy ride if it doesn't...
This diver-to-driverless revolution will take a long time to proceed. We not only need all the cars connected to the network and interact, but also the road monitoring systems participated. As long as the we put attention and energy into this revolution, it will happen.
My God ...THE CAR IS LEARNING.
Can it learn to fly?
Finally we gon be able to hotbox while drinving haha
I'm really looking forward to never having to drive again. That said, how do they handle snow and ice?
Who is dealing with the shaping of the city as relate to self driving cars ?
cheers on a good video for a change ted!
Technologies like this one will enable a transition to a radically new and better world for all people. Please investigate a resource based economy.
honestly i think we need a new type of road or car to make this really effective.
xingx355 Why? A computer just do the same things a driver do, except doing them better. He "sees" better, react faster and doesn't distract :P
Novaliam Skynet uh I mean computers are definitely superior to humans.
This is great, but we shouldn't eliminate getting your drivers licence. The worlds biggest issue is it's poor education and rules on driving. If everyone was trained to drive a car like a pilot was trained to fly a plane, maybe we would see a much different world of drivers.
But then of course there needs to be consistent strict rules on driving, with much more disciplinary action for bad behaviour and poor car conditions such as bald tyres.
Another issue is that someone from another Country with very minimal driver education can get their international licence when in a Country not of their own, and drive around - now that poorly educated driver is in your Country with the potential to inflict harm because they lack the required training and knowledge.
With World Class Leading Education on Driving, Stricter Laws and Rules with strong Disciplinary Action along with Recurring Education and Car Maintenance, then maybe "Driverless Cars" wouldn't need to eliminate bad drivers and getting your licence, but be a mere luxury...
Amazing!!!