"to understand the driving environment in a human-like manner"
Driving is a phenomenally complicated thing. I gather that most modern cars (mine is 20 years old) have some sort of driving assistant thing which looks suspiciously like an experiment to gather data to move towards an eventual "auto pilot". I suspect there will be fatalities glossed over.
One of my staff described some features of his newly purchased hybrid (can't recall the brand - Asian of some sort, I think). It has "lane assist", which seems to mean that it looks at the white lines on the road and will adjust steering when it thinks you have buggered up. He nearly had to change his trousers after it made a severe course change to the left when close to the peak of a hill because it had lost sight of the white lines and seemed to assume that it was too far to the right.
I am fallible too but I get to reason about my fallibility. I also come equipped with a decent set of sensors (my eyes are getting a bit crap though!) I can look into the distance at a corner (and consider the various gradients) and work out how to shift gears and so on to use the engine to mostly not need to use the brake.
Recently I drove an old Morgan. It was like steering a whale! However, it turns out that my driving style works well with a fairly light car with very narrow wheels/tyres, a big old lump of an engine in front and the power applied nearly under your bum. Glorious!
How well will your LLM cope with the conditions that I encountered driving that old beast. The weather was absolutely shit and the roads were challenging: rural Worcs. Lots of mud (skidding snag) etc
Will these beasties be able to notice patches of mud and compensate? Will they be able to notice puddles that form at the bottom of a valley (or even anticipate them) during severe rain fall?
Driving is a phenomenally complicated thing. I gather that most modern cars (mine is 20 years old) have some sort of driving assistant thing which looks suspiciously like an experiment to gather data to move towards an eventual "auto pilot". I suspect there will be fatalities glossed over.
One of my staff described some features of his newly purchased hybrid (can't recall the brand - Asian of some sort, I think). It has "lane assist", which seems to mean that it looks at the white lines on the road and will adjust steering when it thinks you have buggered up. He nearly had to change his trousers after it made a severe course change to the left when close to the peak of a hill because it had lost sight of the white lines and seemed to assume that it was too far to the right.
I am fallible too but I get to reason about my fallibility. I also come equipped with a decent set of sensors (my eyes are getting a bit crap though!) I can look into the distance at a corner (and consider the various gradients) and work out how to shift gears and so on to use the engine to mostly not need to use the brake.
Recently I drove an old Morgan. It was like steering a whale! However, it turns out that my driving style works well with a fairly light car with very narrow wheels/tyres, a big old lump of an engine in front and the power applied nearly under your bum. Glorious!
How well will your LLM cope with the conditions that I encountered driving that old beast. The weather was absolutely shit and the roads were challenging: rural Worcs. Lots of mud (skidding snag) etc
Will these beasties be able to notice patches of mud and compensate? Will they be able to notice puddles that form at the bottom of a valley (or even anticipate them) during severe rain fall?