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For autonomous vehicles that rely on smooth roads and clear signals, a broken traffic light could conceivably pose a major problem.<\/p>
To get around the problem of a missing green light, self-driving car company Waymo trained its vehicles’ artificial intelligence to detect and respond to the arm movements of a traffic cop as they wave traffic through an intersection, according to CNET<\/em><\/a> — and you can watch it on YouTube<\/a>.<\/p> Waymo first claimed<\/a> that its autonomous vehicles could respond to hand signals from nearby cyclists back in 2016. That particular research treated cyclists, from the vehicle’s perspective, as obstacles to track and avoid.<\/p> A new video published by Waymo on Wednesday is the first that shows its vehicles responding to gesture commands — especially in the absence of the traffic lights on which it would normally rely — and obeying police orders<\/a>. The video, which runs at three times normal speed, shows a picture-in-picture display of the car’s digital perspective and a video camera as it goes through an intersection.<\/p> The video shows the car approach the intersection where a virtual red wall blocks off the road, suggesting that the computer’s software responds to the absence of a green light at an intersection the same way as it might to an illuminated red light.<\/p> The cop in the video, represented by a small prism, teeters across the virtual representation of the intersection before finally waving the Waymo vehicle’s vehicle through the intersection and along its way.<\/p> READ MORE:<\/strong> Waymo self-driving cars can now respond to traffic cops’ hand signals<\/a> [CNET<\/em>]<\/p> More on Waymo: Expert Slams Waymo Safety Data: “They Obviously Do Not Trust These Numbers”<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p> The post Watch a Self-Driving Car Obey Police Hand Signals<\/a> appeared first on Futurism<\/a>.<\/p> Continued here: Palm Reading For autonomous vehicles that rely on smooth roads and clear signals, a broken traffic light could conceivably pose a major problem. To get around the problem of a missing green light, self-driving car company Waymo trained its vehicles\u2019 artificial intelligence to detect and respond to the arm movements of a traffic cop as they wave traffic through an intersection, according to CNET \u00a0\u2014\u00a0and you can watch it on YouTube Continue reading Long Time Coming<\/h2>
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