This Is What the World Looks Like to Self-driving Cars

Civil Maps provides a video showing how a self-driving car uses its technology to navigate on the road. The video makes a convincing case for the tech, and for self-driving cars in general.

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If you’ve ever wondered what the road looks like through the eyes of an autonomous vehicle, now you can find out, thanks to this video from Civil Maps. The video depicts what a self-driving car perceives using its sensors and the information it processes through its on-board computer. Civil Maps, Ford’s HD map technology company, created the video, which also shows how detailed 3D maps is combined with sensor data from radar, optical cameras, and other on-board vehicle hardware to help an autonomous vehicle understand what’s going on in the world around it. Read more…