Computer Vision

Computer Vision is how computers see things. Such as in images or videos. Comupters seeing is crucial to concepts like self-driving cars in that the cars need to see things in the environment to avoid crashing into them.
Computer vision is an interdisciplinary field that deals with how computers can be made for gaining high-level understanding from digital images or videos. From the perspective of engineering, it seeks to automate tasks that the human visual system can do.[1][2][3]
Although not all self-driving vehicles need computer vision as they can follow a predetermined line, or simply drive with no vision at all given that no obstacles are in their path. In the case of obstacles self-driving cars with computer vision typically have increased maneuverability.