Hyundai to give autonomous cars "human intuition"

Hyundai wants to teach its autonomous cars to think like humans, investing in AI specialists Perceptive Automata to develop new software for self-driving vehicles that will mean your car is as good at spotting unpredictable hazards as you are. Hyundai's Cradle divison - a department set aside for innovation, not unlike BMW's i division - made the decision to partner with the American startup after Perceptive Automata developed new software that is able to predict the often unpredictable intentions of pedestrians, cyclists and other road users. "One of the biggest hurdles facing autonomous vehicles is the inability to interpret the critical visual cues about human behaviour that human drivers can effortlessly process," says Hyundai Cradle vice-president, John Suh. "Perceptive Automata is giving the AV industry the tools to deploy autonomous vehicles that understand more like humans, creating a safer and smoother driving experience." Considered one of the stumbling blocks to our autonomous future, the erratic behaviour of human road users is much harder to predict than that of other self-driving cars. The latter, it is presumed, would be talking to each other, but humans remain the unpredictable off-line element.