This Is How A Driverless Car Sees The World

Computers are damn clever these days, but our simple human maps just aren’t detailed enough for these intelligent machines to navigate driverless cars along a live highway safely. For that reason, it is necessary to upgrade our maps, big time.

That’s where the likes of Nokia come in, with its 3D-mapping team, ‘HERE.’ So far it has logged 1.2 million miles in 30 countries, thanks to a fleet of over 200 cars. These cars are chock-full of sensors, capable of recording over 700,000 points of data per second using GPS, cameras and laser beams. They even have sensors that can detect the topograpy of the road.

The video above demonstrates what this data capture looks like, and is essentially what the self-driving cars will ‘see.’ It looks a lot more realistic than the Google system below, though similarly complex.

Source: Gizmodo