needed to ensure self-driving cars are safe on physical roads would be a monumental challenge in itself, besides taking decades to achieve.
"It's fundamental for most AV companies to start simulation the day they start the company," Boyd said. At its most basic, simulation allowed Cruise to replay scenarios that its self-driving cars encountered on drives, right when they returned to the garage. "We want to ask those 'what if' questions, because they are going to happen," said Boyd. "We can't guarantee that the world is behaving well, we can only control that our cars are behaving well."
"You're running this simulation, you're renting a lot of cloud compute, and you want to make sure that you've set that situation up right," said Boyd. -based applications to know certain images by exposing it to thousands of pictures, Cruise can also train its vehicles to respond in situations by continually putting in through the same scenarios in simulation.