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Video of Self Driving Car Prototypes

Above is a short video of one of the self-driving car prototypes driving by me on Stewart in Sunnyvale.

Below is another video of another prototype driving in the opposite direction.  They appear to be making circuits along Stewart to DeGuigne to Arques and back along Wolfe Road to Stewart, a single block.  There are several Apple offices along the route and also a Lyft car certification station.

(C) 2018 by John F. McGowan, Ph.D.

About Me

John F. McGowan, Ph.D. solves problems using mathematics and mathematical software, including developing gesture recognition for touch devices, video compression and speech recognition technologies. He has extensive experience developing software in C, C++, MATLAB, Python, Visual Basic and many other programming languages. He has been a Visiting Scholar at HP Labs developing computer vision algorithms and software for mobile devices. He has worked as a contractor at NASA Ames Research Center involved in the research and development of image and video processing algorithms and technology. He has published articles on the origin and evolution of life, the exploration of Mars (anticipating the discovery of methane on Mars), and cheap access to space. He has a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a B.S. in physics from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).

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The All Seeing Eye Vanishes

The traffic (?) surveillance device, apparently a “SCOUT” from miovision technologies, monitoring the intersection of El Camino Real and San Antonio at the border between Palo Alto, Mountain View, and Los Altos in California, USA has vanished as of about 7:30 AM Pacific Standard Time, Saturday, November 4, 2017.

Light Pole No Longer Has "Traffic Camera" Attached
Light Pole No Longer Has “Traffic Camera” Attached

Here is an earlier picture of the device:

Light Pole with Device Attached
Light Pole with Device Attached

Here is my detailed video on the device:

I noticed the device on Thursday, November 2, 2017.  It is not that obvious so it could have been there for several days, although I am pretty observant and go by the light pole daily.  I suspect it was installed on Wednesday or Thursday.  If so, it was only able to collect data for a few days.  It does not seem like long enough to collect reliable data.  For example, one would like to observe the intersection for at least a week to see the variations between weekdays and weekends as well as from day to day during the week.

I wonder if it was taken down due to my posts.

(C) 2017 John F. McGowan, Ph.D.