How I learned to stop worrying and love training autonomous cars using AWS DeepRacer?

1. Origin

Amazon wanted to put Reinforcement Learning in the hands of developers. Something like hands-on learning. And also Amazon venture into autonomous cars segment.

Deepracer is a 1/18 scale autonomous car, which runs on ubuntu running on Intel Atom processor and has a RC car chassis and engine. The secret sauce is Amazon’s deeplens camera.

AWS DeepRacer includes a fully-configured cloud environment that you can use to train your Reinforcement Learning models. It takes advantage of the new Reinforcement Learning feature in Amazon SageMaker and also includes a 3D simulation environment powered by AWS RoboMaker. You can train an autonomous driving model against a collection of predefined race tracks included with the simulator and then…