mjshiggins

Wow, there is an incredible amount of hate for Electron. I understand the desire to avoid it with consumer apps and it feels strange to have large companies using it, but I'm honestly a huge fan of what they've been able to do with it for GUI design. I'm a roboticist who has been stuck in the 90s with tools like tkinter / qt / whatever, and electron has finally enabled me to build something modern for control and monitoring. It's been a godsend, but maybe that's why we are seeing so much adoption in the commercial space.

Definitely good points. We have three cameras that are arranged colinearly along the whole width of the windshield, so this dataset has a pretty big effective field of view. And while it is currently limited in a lot of ways, it's just the beginning of the types of data we will be releasing. Everything will start scaling up to cover more use cases, as this data is mainly meant to support the training of a visual network for steering wheel predictions. For the moment, we actually do want to train the networks to drive like "normal" humans in normal situations. Thanks for your thoughts!

I'm here as a core contributor to the project and will be answering questions as well (in between making cable extensions for our lidar units).

There will be a blind test set for the challenge itself! Including a public leaderboard. We are asking the world to compete on building the best vision based network for predictive steering.