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comment by kleinbl00

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    When Google cars become a more common sight, all those logs could be uploaded and shared. This means that every Google car can learn from every other Google car driving around. It’s the largest form of machine learning. A Google car doesn’t just practice on its own: all cars practice all the time and can exchange this information.

    This is the key to why Google of all companies is tackling the problem of self-driving cars. Just like they’ve crawled the web and collected all its data, they can crawl the world and collect all its data. They’re the only company who could do such a phenomenally large task, and they’ve done it before with Google Streetview.