To test the autopilot properly, it is necessary to create the most believable and harsh conditions. The developers NuTonomy decided to send several unmanned vehicles in a few creepy parts of Boston — statistics of road traffic inspections, the United States is living there the worst drivers in America. The opportunity to introduce AI with these guys can be a great lesson for the automatic driving, so the creators of the autopilot made a request for tests in Boston. The permission was granted.
The development of artificial intelligence for autopilots is in NuTonomy 2013. This winter the company has already begun testing his creation on a small shooting range in an industrial area of Boston, but there is how to turn does not work, because the prepared industrial zone and a common public road is not one and the same.
During testing, the autopilot will face multilane roads, lots of signs, bridges and detours, which goes a lot of cyclists and car drivers, whose style is very far from perfect. Thanks to these trials, the developers hope to prepare well the AI autopilot for any eventuality, making it more flexible and savvy.
Autopilot NuTonomy will meet with bad drivers
Vyacheslav Larionov