Google's Self Driving Car Gathers Nearly 1 GB/Sec

I learned this weekend at an XPrize event that Google's self-driving car gathers 750 megabytes of sensor data per SECOND! That is just mind-boggling to me. Here is a picture of what the car "sees" while it is driving and about to make a left turn. It is capturing every single thing that it sees moving - cars, trucks, birds, rolling balls, dropped cigarette butts, and fusing all that together to make its decisions while driving. If it sees a cigarette butt, it knows a person might be creeping out from between cars. If it sees a rolling ball it knows a child might run out from a driveway. I am truly stunned by how impressive an achievement this is.

I believe that this is an UNDER-hyped revolution in the making. I am thankful that there is a company like Google that is so audacious as to take on a task like this and advance the state of the art the way it has. Over the weekend, I got to see a video of images like the one above, and it's truly stunning. I can't wait to drive in one of these someday. There is a great video online of a blind man taking his first drive in the car, and it's extremely touching. If you watch it, I would love to hear your thoughts.


Khushbu Kumari

Research Associate at Value Market Research

2y

According to Value Market Research, the latest technology trends and global market opportunity analysis in the Self Driving Car Market industry growing with a high CAGR in the upcoming year. Our report has categorized the market based on technology, service, development, vertical and region. https://www.valuemarketresearch.com/report/self-driving-car-market

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Harry Asobora

Experienced Agriculturalist with vast knowledge in plantation crops establishment and management

8y

Great..!

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Guy Maresh

Senior Systems Integrator R&D at Canfield Research Group

10y

Imagine the Google long haul truck, the Google cab, the Google train, the Google aircraft. In the case of the train and aircraft we could easily replace the pilots and train engineers today. We put those people in those seats so we can have someone to blame when the technology goes wrong. When we do actually start replacing those people with computers we need to rethink what employment means to society. In fact we need to think about it now. There are robots doing more precise brain surgery than humans can. Radiologists are being replaced by Computer Aided Diagnosis systems. Google has replaced a lot of legal team personnel searching through old law books. Accountants are gone. Dictation is gon to speech recognition. I for one am looking forward to the time when our basic needs will be taken care of by automation at little or no cost. It will allow me the freedom to do as I wish and I am one of the few who will still create new systems. I define my job as working myself out of a job. So I can move on to the next one. There are many though who will be lost. Actually we see it happening already today. There are many homeless today who have been kicked off the buss of employment. They were technically qualified to do a job. Then technology came along and kicked them off the buss. How we manage this process will determine how we survive as humans in the future. Never say it cant happen to you. Computers are doing so much more than you think and they are capable of so much more.

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And what will happen to this data?

Adam Cox

Full Stack Software Developer, Business Value Partner

10y

I imagine a time when this device is part of a bus that runs a circuit. Many buses continuously running their circuit. Picking people up and taking them to a station where they can board another express mode of transport which goes between assigned stations and drop you off. Then another and final bus running a circuit passing by your final destination. Cars should be reconsidered. I like motoring, but I hate commuting. It's a waste of my time, and your resources.

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