XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.sf.science   
   From: gossg@gossg.org   
      
   "rex"  wrote:   
      
      
   >>> and to even have the self driving car check the signs on the road that   
   >>> the human drivers use too.   
   >>   
   >> That was the point of the example - the sign may well be in different   
   >> places on different road, partially or fully obscured, stolen, graffiti   
   >> altered, etc.etc. A human driver can tell in most cases (fully obscured   
   >> being the exception), but a computer simply can't.   
   >   
   >The computer can in fact do a much better job of doing   
   >that because it can have part of its system dedicated to   
   >observing the street signs and no human driver can do that.   
      
   A given jurisdiction will have maybe twenty standardized signs.   
   Pattern recognition of that kind of thing is pretty easy for computers   
   these days.  The face recognition that the better consumer cameras do   
   these days is many times harder.   
      
   --   
   We are geeks.  Resistance is voltage over current.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)