Autonomous vehicles- the elephant in the room, why it will not work, and other option that exists...
Barak Rosenberg
I am an accomplished AI specialist, founder, entrepreneur, manager, programmer, architect. With a rich background in the hi tech industries, management, architecture, programming, AI/ML (including LLM edge/cloud).
Autonomous vehicles should be safer then human people, meaning they should have no accidents in 100% of the time, or have an accident at least after 100,000KM of driving, meaning ability to recognize dangerous situations on road in 99.9999% percent.
Well, there is a problem with Neural Networks, that only adapt to what we give them as input, by changing the weights of the inputs to "neurons", without creating new connections between neurons, have problem with recognizing general objects like a humans, have problems with many sensors, that are expensive, consume a lot of electricity and hard to deploy in already existing driven vehicles.
While neural networks recognize only 60-80% of objects around, when Line Of Sight to specific object exists, it explains why all the autonomous world is stuck, while the leading autonomous vehicle tester claims on abilities 16 times worse then humans after millions of kilometers trying to "teach" the neural networks how to move.
The secret is, well, the neural networks changes it's weights according to existing data that we give it, and we can not insert all versions of every vehicle, or every human to the neural network- it can not recognize something it did not "see" before, and does not have intuition.
We can teach a neural network to recognize a specific face, or specific car, but not all cars, and all humans.
The only way to increase safety in driver vehicles, is have full Situational Awareness recognizing every vehicle in any weather around car, this can only be achieved by using V2V wireless modem on top of HD-maps in every car, which gives lane level accuracy, and "seeing" real time moving vehicles on the HD-maps which update each other 20-50 times in a second(every 20-50 milliseconds)_
As of 2019 millions of vehicles in Europe begin to sell with an integrated V2V wireless modem inside vehicle, a modem which consumes ~4W of power, easy to install, and sends location of the moving vehicle to all vehicles around.