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07-01-2017, 09:43 PM
Self-driving cars can handle anything, except kangaroos
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Self-driving cars can make it through ice, s**w, thunderstorms, and the winding streets of Pittsburgh (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/21/tech**logy/pittsburgh-ubers-driverless-car-experiment.html?_r=0).*
What can't they handle? Kangaroos.*
Volvo admitted this week that its self-driving tech**logy's "Large Animal Detection system" was flummoxed by kangaroos (https://www.theguardian.com/tech**logy/2017/jul/01/volvo-admits-its-self-driving-cars-are-confused-by-kangaroos).*
SEE ALSO: Check out the first photos of Waymo's self-driving big rig (http://mashable.com/2017/06/29/waymo-truck-first-images/)
The cars (http://www.volvocars.com/au/about/in**vations/intellisafe/autopilot) can deal with roaming deer, elk, and caribou, but can't process kangaroos because of the animals' "unique method of movement," or hopping.
“Any company that would be working on the auto**mous car concept would be having to do the same developmental work,” Volvo Australia Managing Director Kevin McCann said (https://www.theguardian.com/tech**logy/2017/jul/01/volvo-admits-its-self-driving-cars-are-confused-by-kangaroos). “We brought our engineers into Australia to begin the exercise of gathering the data of how the animals can move and behave so the computers can understand it more.” Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/07/01/self-driving-volvo-kangaroo/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Self-driving cars can make it through ice, s**w, thunderstorms, and the winding streets of Pittsburgh (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/21/tech**logy/pittsburgh-ubers-driverless-car-experiment.html?_r=0).*
What can't they handle? Kangaroos.*
Volvo admitted this week that its self-driving tech**logy's "Large Animal Detection system" was flummoxed by kangaroos (https://www.theguardian.com/tech**logy/2017/jul/01/volvo-admits-its-self-driving-cars-are-confused-by-kangaroos).*
SEE ALSO: Check out the first photos of Waymo's self-driving big rig (http://mashable.com/2017/06/29/waymo-truck-first-images/)
The cars (http://www.volvocars.com/au/about/in**vations/intellisafe/autopilot) can deal with roaming deer, elk, and caribou, but can't process kangaroos because of the animals' "unique method of movement," or hopping.
“Any company that would be working on the auto**mous car concept would be having to do the same developmental work,” Volvo Australia Managing Director Kevin McCann said (https://www.theguardian.com/tech**logy/2017/jul/01/volvo-admits-its-self-driving-cars-are-confused-by-kangaroos). “We brought our engineers into Australia to begin the exercise of gathering the data of how the animals can move and behave so the computers can understand it more.” Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/07/01/self-driving-volvo-kangaroo/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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