The future for autonomous driving cars may not be limited to just roadways. TartanDrive is a massive data set with nearly 200,000 off-road interactions that may help future programmers understand physics so that vehicles can interpret terrain more intuitively. There’s a genuine use for that in a rapidly changing world where infrastructural disasters can happen very suddenly. At the moment, the way that a robot looks at off-road environments is to identify surfaces like “mud,” “grass,” “rocks,” etc. But that’s not actually very helpful in determining how to drive over them. Read the original article.
