Eli5 – What makes self driving so hard?

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On one hand I understand that it is a monumental advance in technology.

On the other hand a computer can recognize a unique face from pretty far.

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The “recognize a unique face” hurdle was a huge one that computer scientists have been working on for almost 75 years at this point. Image recognition in general is a hard problem for us to come up with an algorithmic solution for, because it isn’t something that humans know through an algorithm – we have built-in brain structures to deal with image processing and through heuristics of a lifetime of doing that plus a lifetime of living and existing in the world, we’re able to tell the difference between a sheep and a cloud, while a computer lacks a lot of that context.

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