Driverless cars learn how to drive with GTA5

Grand Theft Auto 5 is being used to help teach the AI of self-driving cars how to drive through simulations of the game's traffic system.

A new article from Bloomberg has revealed an unexpected but perhaps unsurprising new role for 2013’s Grand Theft Auto 5: teaching driverless cars how to drive.

Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto 5 features 262 types of vehicles, 14 weather conditions, over 1,000 different pedestrians and animals and numerous traffic lights, intersections, bridges and tunnels, providing the AI of self-driving cars with plenty of realistic simulations to run through and understand.