This is cool, but unlike some other recent neural game players [1] [2], it doesn't look at the screen at all. It also has an objective function which is tightly coupled to this game. Therefore this work is not easily generalizable to other video games, nor would it be useful for a real-world self-driving car.

[1] http://vizdoom.cs.put.edu.pl/ [2] https://deepmind.com/research/dqn/