New Video | 40 Minutes Uncut: E2E Autonomous Driving Through Tokyo’s Toughest Roads
Watch the video: https://youtu.be/Mz8VM6cocgY?si=_4dbJaIBSJzIgTvI
We took Turing’s E2E autonomous driving through central Tokyo.
The route takes in the streets around the Imperial Palace, where the car has to choose a path across five or six lanes; the Shuto Expressway, which it enters without switching to a different AI model; and intersections where it has to work out which of several traffic lights applies to it.
As the car tackles one tough stretch after another, COO Daisuke Tanaka in the driver’s seat and CEO Issei Yamamoto in the passenger seat talk about the parts of driving that are hard to put into words, how they think about cameras and sensors, and the moments when AI starts to feel intelligent.
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0:00 Highlights
0:57 Opening / Today’s route: the “Enjoy Central Tokyo” course
2:19 Why Turing’s autonomous driving suddenly got so good
2:57 Building the shogi AI Ponanza
5:12 Craftsmanship beyond words / Can you explain what walking is?
9:21 Driving is really hard / Roads are a microcosm of human society
11:01 Cameras or lidar? / Around the Imperial Palace, one of Japan’s toughest stretches
15:52 From Kasumigaseki onto the Shuto Expressway / One model for both surface streets and expressways
19:56 Seven cameras, 360° vision / E2E driving that holds up in the rain
23:07 Which light is ours? / In AI, you never know when the breakthrough will come
26:48 Tokyo, one of the world’s toughest places to drive / People are what make roads chaotic
29:16 A VLM layered on top of E2E / The Navigator-Driver model
33:22 What if a giraffe wanders onto the road? / Coping with the unexpected
35:54 When AI feels intelligent / A beauty in shogi that no human had seen
38:10 Nearly done — this is our victory lap
38:27 That’s a wrap
38:52 Good autonomous driving has style
39:40 It’s a privilege to take on hard problems
40:14 Natural acceleration and braking to match the car ahead
Correction: The on-screen caption at 38:27 should read “Goal,” not “Gole.”
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Note: All driving on public roads is done with a safety driver in the driver’s seat who monitors the surroundings at all times and is ready to take over immediately when needed.