Sentdex: Perception, Not Decision-Making, Is the Hard Part of Self-Driving
Sentdex · x · 2026-09-19
Replying to a discussion on whether models can drive using ground-truth simulation data, Sentdex argues this skips the entire hard part of self-driving: real-world perception. With privileged ground-truth sim data, you could solve driving with if-statements — perception and scene understanding are the actual challenge.
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