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jaimex2 on July 2, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Volvo admits its self-driving cars are confused by...

I'm not sure what system Volvo has gone for, but most isn't this just a "train more kangaroo data into the neural network" thing to fix?

jfries on July 2, 2017 [–]

From the article it seems the hopping it what makes it tricky. Their model is that the distance to the animal is the same as the distance to where their feet touch the ground. When an animal is in the air the feet appear to touch the ground further away due to perspective.

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