Self-Driving Cars Can Learna Lot by Playing Grand Theft Auto Technology Review (09/12/16) Will Knight Several research groups are using the "Grand Theft Auto" video game to educate algorithms with potential application to self-driving vehicle navigation. The researchers say the game's scenic elements are extremely realistic, and can be used to produce data on a par with that generated using real-world imagery. A team from Intel Labs and Germany's Darmstadt University created a software layer positioned between the game and a computer's hardware, automatically classifying different objects in the game's road scenes. [...] "We showed that this synthetic data is almost as good, or sometimes even better, than using real data for training," Shafaei says. https://www.technologyreview.com/s/602317/self-driving-cars-can-learn-a-lot-... -- Securely sent with Tutanota. It's good, you should try it: https://tutanota.com