Deep learning weekly piece: testing autonomous driving (virtually)

This week I'm going to focus on how deep learning is used in self-driving cars. There are plenty of machine learning applications within that field, but I'm going to zoom in on one very cool technology: virtual testing. Let me cut to the chase: below's a video of my fully-autonomous car driving around in a virtual testing environment. Granted, while it does looks like a 1990s retro (pretty dull) driving game, the car is being controlled by a deep convolutional neural net (CNN) based on a modification a deep learning algorithm made by Nvidia. Let's dive in and take a look at what's going on here.