Self-Driving Cars in Our Streets!

While driving to work this morning, I took advantage of sitting at a red light (and with no traffic behind me) to quickly snap this photo of an Uber self-driving car.

It's a bit of a treat to see. I am guessing that they might have just dropped someone off. There were 2 people in the front and the car was sitting there for awhile.

I wonder if the car made the decision to 'park' so close to an intersection, it almost looks like a blind spot for a car turning right onto our street. Especially with that truck right there. Unless it was dropping off as close as possible to a particular address. That's an interesting consideration for a learning system. Is the AI in this car designed to try to "be better?" Or does it learn because of the data we feed it and then it drives around to validate that data? So it needs to drive more to improve its data for location services. So to speak.

But what about taking other things into consideration? Like, 'who do other cars see or not see me?'

Still, glad to see scientists pushing an envelope and working on innovations. In the long run, there will be benefits to all of this.