Equation 2 · Part 1 · From Origins to Frontier: A History of Robotics and Embodied AI
Symbol q
What this part means
q is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
Its job in the formula
q is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
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The passage around this formula
The arithmetic behind that result is worth making explicit, because it explains why the next eighteen months mattered more than the raw distance suggests. If a course of length L miles must be driven without a mission-ending error, and a vehicle’s probability of such an error is q per mile and roughly independent from one mile to the next, the probability of finishing the course is approximately
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Sources cited in the article section
- [11] The DARPA Grand Challenge: Ten Years Later ↗
- [9] Stanley: The Robot that Won the DARPA Grand Challenge ↗
- [10] Autonomous Driving in Urban Environments: Boss and the Urban Challenge ↗
- [17] Driving to Safety: How Many Miles of Driving Would It Take to Demonstrate Autonomous Vehicle Reliability? ↗
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