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The NVIDIA PilotNet Experiments

Bojarski, Mariusz, Chen, Chenyi, Daw, Joyjit et al.

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Four years ago, an experimental system known as PilotNet became the first NVIDIA system to steer an autonomous car along a roadway.

This system represents a departure from the classical approach for self-driving in which the process is manually decomposed into a series of modules, each performing a different task.
In PilotNet, on the other hand, a single deep neural network (DNN) takes pixels as input and produces a desired vehicle trajectory as output; there are no distinct internal modules connected by human-designed interfaces.
We believe that handcrafted interfaces ultimately limit performance by restricting information flow through the system and that a learned approach, in combination with other artificial intelligence systems that add redundancy, will lead to better overall performing systems.

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