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Bright Box uses realistic video games to train its self-driving car retrofit kit

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Bright Box is unveiling a self-driving car retrofit solution with a neural network that learns extreme driving through computer games.

Bright Box’s Remoto Pilot emphasizes safe, reliable road/lane following as well as real-time detection and avoidance of various obstacles such as cars and pedestrians. It may sound crazy, but it makes a lot of sense to use games like Grand Theft Auto V to train a computer for a driverless car. After all, you can practice over and over in a simulated game before you take the risk of driving on a real road.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.