New Method Helps Self-Driving Cars Create 'Memories'

A team of researchers at Cornell University has developed a new method enabling autonomous vehicles to create "memories" of previous experiences, which can then be used in future navigation. This will be especially useful when these self-driving cars can't rely on sensors in bad weather environments. Current self-driving cars that use artificial neural networks have no memory of the past, meaning they are constantly "seeing" things for the first time. And this is true regardless of how many times they've driven the exact same road. Killian Weinberger is senior author of the research and a professor of computer science.