Teen Programmer Uses Real Self-Driving Car Tech in 'GTA V' (vice.com) 22
Cars that can drive themselves in certain situations are an expensive luxury, but programmers, hobbyists, and gearheads across the world are working to drive down the cost of the technology and make it easier to use. Comma.ai, founded by infamous hacker George Hotz (AKA "geohot"). is one of those companies. Drivers can install the "comma two" kit in supported models and take the technology for a spin. From a report: For those not ready to make the leap, 15-year-old programmer Leon Hillman has taken Comma.ai's open source driving software and retrofitted it to control vehicles in Grand Theft Auto V. What that means is they have figured out a way to put self-driving cars into a video game from 2013, relieving the player of the compulsion to, uh, play the game. Comma.ai lets people retrofit recent model Honda and Toyota cars with software that brings automated lane centering and adaptive cruise control for use on highways and in stop-and-go traffic to the vehicles. The software, Openpilot, is open source so anybody can manually add support to more vehicles, if they have the ability to do so. Comma.ai places a camera system inside the car that views the road and the driver, a tablet to give driver feedback, and a cabling system that lets the system connect up to the car and run Openpilot. "Openpilot works by taking the radar data integrated with supported car models and combining it with the camera built into comma hardware, to determine what acceleration, braking, and steering events are required," Comma.ai's website explained.
Funny.. (Score:2)
The article clearly saw CAN bus and IMU and felt that those were too confusing and had to expand the acronyms, which would do nothing to help people who wouldn't recognize the acronyms.
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Well those CANadian Buses are often very polite, In My Uppity opinion.
Having Technical wording to explain the acronyms are still better than the acronyms for a news story. Acronyms are not so good when covering a topic that not all the audience if familiar with.
ICE: Internal Combustion Engine or Immigration Control Enforcement
PM: Project Management, Practice Management, or Post Median
CEO: Chief Executive Officer or Chief Electrical Officer
The full word even technical ones, can give a person a better clue o
Cool hack but pointless. (Score:5, Funny)
Self driving AI code, is designed to drive safely. While the game encourages reckless driving.
What is next, hacking the game so your character can get a college education, and work in a cubical for money, raise a family, and mortgage a nice home on the outskirts.
Where you play the game, avoid any side quest in its seedy underbelly.
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How to turn GTA V into The Sims.
Re: Cool hack but pointless. (Score:3)
Hunh... the things you learn on the internet, eh?
I guess that explains the blood stains, tons of loose cash, and the bullet holes....
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Re: Cool hack but pointless. (Score:2)
Close (Score:1)
Its a good idea if instead of GTA try with better car simulation.
There is a high chance that some car simulators use real but rare use cases that could allow to detect bad or inefficient behavior in autonomous AI.
The more different simulators, the better for AI... except if simulators are totally unrealistic.
Re:Close (Score:5, Interesting)
There is a high chance that some car simulators use real but rare use cases that could allow to detect bad or inefficient behavior in autonomous AI.
Really?
If I was a car AI developer the first thing I'd do is make a game called "Try to make the AI crash the car", for other people to play with on their lunch breaks.
Let people drop clowns in front of the car while it's driving (or whatever).
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Where's the turbo button? How do I tip my car to make it to the airport faster?
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Just get a few stars in GTA then let the AI drive.
I look forward to AI drivers that can dodge kamikaze cops, roadblocks, and hails of bullets.
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Let people drop clowns in front of the car while it's driving (or whatever).
The image algorithms started keying into the triangle shape that pedestrians' legs make when walking. There were early problems that it failed to detect people on crutches, or in wheelchairs. Try throwing simulated grannies instead of clowns if you want to win the "crash the AI" game.
Also makes a way more provoking headline: "Self-driving car fails to detect thousands of pensioners, key to victory in pro-gaming"
Thought he used a "Real Car" (Score:2)
video (Score:2)
And an aimbot (Score:2)
Reverse news (Score:2)
This is reverse news. The AI models were trained in GTA V to begin with: https://www.pcmag.com/news/tra... [pcmag.com]
So why should anyone be shocked that the place where training models are made... can also use said training models?
So... self playing video game? (Score:2)