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The AI learns a different set of rules than we do.

Google (via its sibling company, Waymo) realized this early. The road is a sparse dataset. Most driving is boring. The truly dangerous moments—the tire rolling out of a driveway, the deer jumping the median, the drunk driver running a red light—happen maybe once every 100,000 miles. google driving simulator

If we only taught a self-driving car using real-world road data, it would take centuries. Worse, it would be lethal. To teach a neural network that a child running into the street is bad, you would have to wait for a child to actually run into the street—and hope the car stops in time. That is not engineering; that is gambling. The AI learns a different set of rules than we do

The strings are pulled by the simulator. Most driving is boring

The real world discovers the bugs; the simulation amplifies the cure. Here is where the blog post gets deep.