The hard job of teaching autonomous cars to drive
Computer games help
WHEN DRIVING, Clara-Marina Martinez makes a note of any unusual behaviour she sees on the road. She then feeds these into machine-learning algorithms, a form of AI, which she is helping develop for Porsche Engineering, a division of the eponymous German sports-car company.
This article appeared in the Science & technology section of the print edition under the headline “Hands off the wheel”
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