Google's Self-Driving Cars: 1.3 Million Miles and Hard Cases

HN returns to it repeatedly as one of the best candid talks on how a real self-driving system sees the road and where it struggles.

Chris Urmson's SXSW 2016 talk on Google's self-driving car project, covering 1.3 million self-driven miles and the gap between hype and reality. It shows sensor visualizations and playbacks of hard situations the cars met, and discusses failures such as the low-speed bus collision.