I Created A Virtual Self Driving Car With Deep Q-Networks

Jerry Qu
7 min readNov 2, 2018

This is what traffic looks like with Self Driving Cars.

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Imagine living in that world. A world where there are:

  • No Traffic Jams
  • No Traffic Accidents
  • No Time Spent Driving

As I pointed out in my last article on Reinforcement Learning (which you should read before this), this is revolutionary for 2 main reasons:

  • It will save 1.25 MILLION lives every year from traffic accidents
  • It will give you the equivalence of 3 extra years in a lifetime, currently spent in transit

And companies are working on these machines right now! Companies such as Tesla (You’ve heard of them), Google, Wayve, and more!

These cars will be powered by Reinforcement Learning!

Again, if you haven’t already read my last article, start there. For a brief overview,

Reinforcement Learning allows machines (known as agents) to learn by experimentation. Imagine learning how to walk. At first, you move your…

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Jerry Qu
Jerry Qu

Written by Jerry Qu

Passionate about Machine Learning, understanding the world, and other exponential technologies.

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