An interesting piece in The Detroit News this week describes the challenges that autonomous vehicles have in identifying stationary objects. In many cases the autonomous systems are better at tracking moving vehicles than in identifying stationary vehicles. The article also describes “the cut-out” – a situation when a car changes lanes which leaves a trailing autonomous vehicle struggling to determine what’s ahead. Evidently the cut-out is one of the hardest scenarios for autonomous systems to comprehend.
A Stopped Vehicle or a Stop Sign?
