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http://gizmodo.com/how-to-teach-an-autonomous-car-to-drive-1694725874
Humans come equipped with a multitude of useful faculties to control a car: We’ve eyes and ears to sense the world around us; a fast-paced brain to process those inputs; and, for the most part, a strong sense of memory which allows us to drive the many roads we know well with great confidence. But there’s a world of difference between the way we see the world and the way a computer does. “You could program a car to drive simply by putting in the rules straight from a DMV handbook,” suggests Katelin Jabbari from Google’s self-driving car team. “But that doesn’t account for 99 percent of the things we encounter on the roads. How softly should I break? How quickly should I take a turn?” Recreating those skills using digital sensors and silicon chips is possible—it just isn’t easy.