Automatic driving car can not recognize "kangaroo" well

ByAlan Levine

Automatic driving carSlippery slipperyYaSize & cost of sensing technology "LIDAR (rider)"There are various tasks such as, but one of them is "KangarooIt seems there is also.

Driverless cars: Kangaroos throwing off animal detection software - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-24/driverless-cars-in-australia-face-challenge-of-roo-problem/8574816


Volvo admits its self-driving cars are confused by kangaroos | Technology | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jul/01/volvo-admits-its-self-driving-cars-are-confused-by-kangaroos

Volvo's automated driving car, a Swedish automobile manufacturer, is equipped with a "large animal detection system"Elk (moose)You can identify them and automatically avoid them. However, as a result of testing the automatic driving car in Australia, it turned out that Kangaroo could not be detected well.

According to David Pickett, Technical Director of Volvo Australia, since the detection system uses the ground as the reference point, the kangaroo is recognized as being far away while jumping and recognizes as if it is near when landing It is said that it is cause.

ByPaul Asman and Jill Lenoble

Mr. Kevin McCan, managing director, said the discovery is part of the development and testing of unmanned driving technology and there is no plan to raise it as a problem until Volvo's automated driving car is put into practical use until 2020 In Australia, since collision accident with kangaroo occupies 90% of accidents with animals, we do not ignore the problem and we are going to develop Kangaroo so that it can be identified .