{"id":212472,"date":"2026-05-12T05:47:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T09:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/12\/self-driving-cars-struggle-to-see-at-night-or-in-fog-but-imitating-the-human-brain-can-make-them-safe\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T06:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T10:00:10","slug":"self-driving-cars-struggle-to-see-at-night-or-in-fog-but-imitating-the-human-brain-can-make-them-safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/12\/self-driving-cars-struggle-to-see-at-night-or-in-fog-but-imitating-the-human-brain-can-make-them-safe\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-driving cars struggle to see at night or in fog \u2013 but imitating the human brain can make them safe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/self-driving-cars-struggle-to-see-at-night-or-in-fog-but-imitating-the-human-brain-can-make-them-safe-282284\">Self-driving cars struggle to see at night or in fog \u2013 but imitating the human brain can make them safe<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/self-driving-cars-struggle-to-see-at-night-or-in-fog-but-imitating-the-human-brain-can-make-them-safe-282284\">https:\/\/theconversation.com\/self-driving-cars-struggle-to-see-at-night-or-in-fog-but-imitating-the-human-brain-can-make-them-safe-282284<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-12 05:47:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"theconversation.com\">theconversation.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Current AI vision systems in self-driving cars function well under good visibility conditions but struggle in adverse weather like fog, darkness, or rain, posing significant risks.<\/li>\n<li>Research from the University of Valencia suggests mimicking human vision&#8217;s adaptability as a solution, specifically through the use of divisive normalization, a biological mechanism that adjusts signal strength.<\/li>\n<li>By incorporating a brain-inspired &#8220;volume control&#8221; mechanism in AI models, the researchers&#8217; simulations showed that modified AI performed over 20% better in adverse conditions compared to standard AI models.<\/li>\n<li>The enhanced AI, which learns from nature, showed improved adaptability and safety in diverse and challenging driving scenarios, highlighting the potential of biological inspiration to improve AI robustness.<\/li>\n<li>The study emphasizes that the key to safer, more adaptable AI may lie in understanding and emulating biological processes, rather than increasing computing power or data collection.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-driving cars struggle to see at night or in fog \u2013 but imitating the human&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":212473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.theconversation.com\/files\/734226\/original\/file-20260429-57-6e2mst.jpg?ixlib=rb-4.1.0&rect=0%2C274%2C2400%2C1200&q=45&auto=format&w=1356&h=668&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212472"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212474,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212472\/revisions\/212474"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}