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by jeffbee 1206 days ago
Predicting the behavior of other actors on the road is a core feature of Waymo.

https://waymo.com/research/identifying-driver-interactions-v...

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Of course.

It's doing that by looking at the vehicle as the agent though; it has nothing to do with "the body language of this pilot suggests this vehicle will do X", it's just a predictive module because it's useless to be able to see another car if you can't predict it's going to go X units forward in the next time tick(s).

Adding a layer that models human drivers to augment the prediction of this module you link would be a waste of time.