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As we further our Level-5 autonomous driving research, and scale up the technology, including sustainable last-mile autonomy operational capabilities, we begin our day-time operations on regular urban roads in India. This is to ensure that our #autonomousdriving technology can work globally and can negotiate any kind of environments and traffic-dynamics. We will gradually increase the complexity of the traffic-dynamics and the environments that our #autonomousvehicles are tasked to negotiate. In this demo, the vehicle was tasked with navigating a regular 4-lane city road, with end goal being able to park itself in a very constrained unstructured parking spot. Often, even on 4-lane roads, vehicles, bicyclists, and autos can come from the wrong side. We mimic this stochastic traffic pattern by having motorcyclists come from the wrong side and not yield to our vehicle -- leaving it to our vehicle to decide whether to come to a standstill or to yield from its current driving lane and perform an avoidance maneuver. At the end, we demonstrate last-mile autonomy capability by having our autonomous vehicle park itself in a very unstructured parking spot, with bikes parked randomly in the area, outside of our office. We had earlier demonstrated such capabilities in structured campus environments in our demos in January and February 2023. As can be seen from the demo, vehicle executed these tasks in a generic open environment, while also negotiating a traffic-intersection, and crossing the divider on the 4-lanes road. This is only a beginning of our day-time operations on roads in India. #reinforcementlearning #deeplearning #machinelearning Swaayatt Robots (स्वायत्त रोबोट्स)