Training an intelligent and autonomous driving agent

We now have all the pieces we need to accomplish our goal for this chapter, which is to put together an intelligent, autonomous driving agent, and then train it to drive a car autonomously in the photo-realistic CARLA driving environment that we developed as a learning environment using the Gym interface in the previous chapter. The agent training process can take a while. Depending on the hardware of the machine that you are going to train the agent on, it may take anywhere from a few hours for simpler environments (such asPendulum-v0,CartPole-v0, and some of the Atari games) to a few days for complex environments (such as the CARLA driving environment). In order to first get a good understanding of the training process and how to monitor progress while the agent is training, we will start with a few simple examples to walk through the whole process of training and testing the agent. We will then look at how easily we can move it to the...