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by jonas_b 4539 days ago
Anybody know if self-driving cars can distinguish between safe and unsafe object; say a big stuffed animal, and a rock in the middle of the road. Would they make big maneuvers to avoid both?
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Human beings aren't especially good at that either...
Tell me about it. I am constantly surprised by how close I need to get to the target in low light conditions to realize it is really not what I earlier recognized it to be.

It usually makes me wish I could enable some sort of Splinter Cell heat sensor.

Or a rock inside a big stuffed animal?