Figure 1: Traffic fatality risk vs. income: all countries and years (Kopits and Cropper, 2005)
The magic behind self-driving cars
Arthur C. Clarke wrote that: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” That certainly seems to apply to self-driving cars. But like both magic tricks and complex systems, one can understand them by breaking them down into component pieces and examining them individually. Mike McGurrin lifts the curtain and describes how some of the self-driving magic is performed, focusing on the overall architecture, the sensors and machine learning techniques
