But in the years to come, machine learning will be essential to the continued progress of autonomous vehicles. For this and other reasons, companies like Toyota and Waymo are not building these cars solely around machine learning. Waymo cars don’t learn to stop at stop lights, for example. But the industry is headed toward more machine learning, not less. “Robotics and machine learning go hand in hand,” he said.

Source: New York Times October 29, 2017 20:15 UTC