Show HN: I made a fly drive a car

Category: ai-ml

Tags: connectome, autonomous-driving, carla, neuroscience, bio-inspired, simulation

Score: 6.5/10 (Innovation: 8, Technical: 7, Documentation: 7, Utility: 4)

Fly-By-Wire uses a pruned fruit-fly connectome (from FlyWire) to steer a car in the CARLA simulator. Camera frames map to a 30x30 grid, and neuron brightness times synapse count drives steering via just six synapses, with simple hand-tuned brakes and throttle. It's an interesting proof-of-concept for biological circuit reuse in control tasks, though explicitly not a trained network.

Target audience: researchers in neuroscience and bio-inspired AI, robotics hobbyists, autonomous driving researchers

Repository: https://siddaarth.com/fly-by-wire/ · Python · MIT

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