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Presenting autonomous driving in complex, stochastic and adversarial traffic-dynamics, on the roads in #India. Over the course of last year, we enabled #autonomousdriving in conditions and in situations no one in the autonomous driving industry considered was possible, and in a country like India, where the contemporary belief was... show more
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When GMaps was introduced in the US in 2005, I thought it would never work in India. It was an incredible achievement that it worked seamlessly. Now, I think autonomous vehicles are impossible for India. It would be an amazing achievement if this is proven to work here. Kudos!

What's the timeline to reach Level 5 Autonomous in India?

If you look at our demo done on Nov 15, 2017, it was Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning demo -- this was the time when only Deep Mind was working on RL at a practical scale, that too single agent. That demo enabled autonomous driving end-to-end in our colony environment, and can be considered level-5 capability. We were unfunded at that time, and I was bootstrapping Swaayatt. Similarly, if you look our bidirectional negotiation done on October 2023, you will see it is world's first introduction of this capability (second only to our Nov 15, 2017 demo) -- which again is being scaled for Level-5 autonomous driving. Attaining Level-5 end-to-end, would be like navigating the core city traffic daytime in India -- I think we are 2 years away from it (but we never know -- we will try to pull this off around August 2024 as well) and perhaps by that time we will have raised around $1B to do the necessary research and the infrastructure to support it. The only funds we received thus far was $3M funding in 2021.

hell yeah !

@mp_index bhopal mai autonomous driving ka experiment hua hai.

@mankuthimma Awesome! May I know what state or central Govt approvals you had to take to run this trial?

@mryalamanchi @protosphinx i think you guys should see this

I love the tech, although can you show the clips at 1x speed? I understand that you show them at 2x so you can fit more content, although showing these tests in 2x distorts the perception of the viewer as to how it’s actually driving. I’d recommend doing more cuts to fit things in along with some text to explain if you want the viewer to specifically concentrate on something. Love seeing this tech being built here itself 💙

This is awesome! Keep going!

Looks like you implemented the whole of Sutton and Barto's book in that car, and then some more :)
