How Deep Learning and Humans in the Loop Will Make Autonomous Cars Work - DATAVERSITY

Rao goes on, "The production release of fully autonomous cars is probably at least five years away still, as these machines are not nearly safe enough for widespread consumer use. Google's self-driving cars still make mistakes, like getting confused by cyclists on fixed-gear bikes at stop signs. Tesla's Autopilot has run into trouble when driving on local streets instead of highways. In fact, there are an unlimited number of such corner cases that autonomous vehicles must respond to, and many still need to be discovered and factored in. Only when a sufficient number of scenarios have been addressed will autonomous cars be considered'safe enough.' As Tesla recently blogged: 'Getting [an autonomous car] to be 99% correct is relatively easy, but getting it to be 99.9999% Making mistakes at 70 mph would be highly problematic'."