How Google's Self-Driving Car Sees and Handles Road Scenarios
TED · Talk · 16 min · 2015 · YouTube title: Chris Urmson: How a driverless car sees the road
Why it's here
Used repeatedly in self-driving threads as a demonstration of how many real-world edge cases the Google/Waymo system already handled.
What it covers
Chris Urmson, head of Google's self-driving car program, shows footage of how the car perceives the road and decides what to do. Examples include cyclist hand signals, school buses, police officers and complex intersections.