[rcheu]

I like how this car has exterior communication to pedestrians. I think this is actually pretty important. The way I tell if I can cross a crosswalk is by making eye contact with the approaching driver, and other self driving cars can’t indicate if they see me.

[wintercarver]

Agreed, this seemed like one of those “totally obvious” needs that only became apparent once I saw their solution. Simple yet effective. I can imagine in the future “eye contact and guess intent” will feel inferior to an explicit, unambiguous status message.

The tidbit on interpreting human gesture (eg construction worker flagging traffic) was interesting, too. I could see that easing people’s minds with regard to autonomous vehicles.

[kahseng]

Thanks Ryan! How are things going? :)

[rcheu]

Hey! Things are going well! I’m actually on ML now, so quite a bit different than the past few years but I’m enjoying it. Glad to see you guys are making progress; it seems like a pretty exciting field right now