Self-Driving Cars Have a Bicycle Problem
&quot;Now Johnny, when you ride your bike you must wear your I-am-a-bike vest and follow these patterns or the cars are likely to kill you.&quot; :-)<p>Summary is that &quot;people riding bikes&quot; (PRB) is a much denser image set than &quot;people in cars&quot; (PIC) and &quot;people walking or jogging&quot; (PWJ), and the PRB objects have a much higher dynamic angular vector capability (they can change direction extremely quickly) combined with a wider dynamic velocity vector to PWJ they strain the ability of the predictive filters to reliably asses the collision threat. As a result you need either faster&#x2F;better hardware or better algorithms to deal with that particular group.<p>I&#x27;m not particularly surprised by that, I expect the cars to also end up with small animal issues, as they can appear suddenly and aggressive evasive maneuvers to avoid hitting them may injure passengers at the cost of saving a squirrel&#x27;s life.<p>And all of that adds up to some of the many things that one has to think about when claiming victory here. It is going to be a long hard engineering slog to get to full autonomy. My question is you can build a computer that can drive a car fully autonomously, what other missions could you create for it? Some of those are kind of scary.