How Google's Self-Driving Car Works

IEEE SpectrumLength: 14 minutesSelf-driving & autonomous vehicles

In brief

Part 2 of the IROS 2011 keynote by Sebastian Thrun and Chris Urmson on Google's self-driving car. It shows how the car perceives its surroundings with a lidar point cloud and recognizes traffic lights and pedestrians. The audio is poor because it was recorded on a pocket camcorder.