HOW IT WORKS Navigating city streets They have taught their cars to navigate through many complicated scenarios on city streets. The cars use their sensors and software to sense objects like pedestrians, cyclists, vehicles and more, and are designed to safely drive around them. Watch the video How it drives Like any driver, a self-driving car needs to constantly answer these questions. Where am I? The car processes both map and sensor information to determine where it is in the world. The car knows what street it's on and which lane it's in. What’s around me? Sensors help detect objects all around us. The software classifies objects based on their size, shape and movement pattern. It detects a cyclist and a pedestrian in this case. What will happen next? The software predicts what all the objects around us might do next. It predicts that the cyclist will ride by and the pedestrian will cross the street. What should I do? ...
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