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The worst part is that this problem has already been solved by using LIDAR. Vegas had fully self-driving cars that I saw perform flawlessly, because they were manufactured by a company that doesn’t skimp on tech and rip people off.
Are those the ones that you can completely immobilize with a traffic cone?
Probably Zoox, but conceptually similar, LiDAR backed.
You can immobilize them by setting anything large on them. Your purse, a traffic cone, a person :)
Probably makes sense to be a little cautious with the gas pedal when there is an anything on top the vehicle.
That and if you just put your toddler on the roof of the car or something or trunk for a quick second to grab something from your pocket.....VROooOMMM baby gone.
The same is true when you put a cone in front of a human driver’s vision. I don’t understand why “haha I blocked the vision of a driver and they stopped driving” is a gotcha.
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I have visions of Elon sitting in his lair, stroking his cat, and using his laptop to cause this crash. /s
Why would you inflict that guy on a poor innocent kitty?
That tree cast shade on his brand.
It had to go.
Don't drive Tesla
I mean, if Elon was my dad, I'd probably have some suicidal tendencies too.
More like the abusive step-father
"It crashed!"
"Yes but it did it all by itself!"
Except for the last 0.05 seconds before the crash where the human was put in control. Therefore, the human caused the crash.
Why someone will be a passenger in self-driving vehicle? They know that they are a test subjects, part of a "Cartrial" (or whatever should be called)? Self-Driving is not reliable and not necessery. Too much money is invested in something that is "Low priority to have". There are prefectly fast and saf self-driving solutions like High-speed Trains.
I have no idea, I guess they have a lot more confidence in self driving (ESPECIALLY Tesla) than I do.
HAL9000 had Oh Clementine!
Has Tesla been training their AI with the lumberjack song?
I use autopilot all the time on my boat. No way in hell I'd trust it in a car. They all occasionally get suicidal. Mine likes to lull you into a sense of false security, then take a sharp turn into a channel marker or cargo ship at the last second.
They have auto pilot on boats? I never even thought about that existing. Makes sense, just never heard of it until just now!
They've had it forever. Tie a rope to the wheel. Presto. Autopilot.
I'll point this post out to Wall Street Bets, Maersk stock will pop 10%+ overnight.
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They've technically had autopilots for over a century, the first one was the oil tanker J.A Moffett in 1920. Though the main purpose of it is to keep the vessel going dead straight as otherwise wind and currents turn it, so using modern car terms I think it would be more accurate to say they have lane assist? Commercial ones can often do waypoint navigation, following a set route on a map, but I don't think that's very common on personal vessels.
That's similar to commercial airliners right?
Exactly. My car doesn’t have AP, but it does have a shed load of sensors and sometimes it just freaks out about stuff being too close to car for no discernible reason. Really freaks me out as I’m like what you see bro we just driving down the motorway.
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Isn't there a plane whose autopilot famously keeps trying to crash into the ground. The general advice is to just not let it do that, whenever it looks like it's about to crash into the ground, pull up instead.
The Being 787 Max did that when the sensor got faulty and there was no redundancy for the sensor's because that was in an optional addon package
Even worse, the pilots and the airlines didn't even know the sensor or associated software control existed and could do that.
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Anything outside of a freshly painted and paved LA roads at high noon while it's sunny isn't ready for self drivings it seems
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"I'm confident that Save full self driving (SFSD) will be ready next year"
Full Self-Destruct
I am never getting into a self driving car. I don't understand why we are investing money into this technology when people can already drive cars on their own, and we should be moving towards robust public transportation systems anyway. A waste of time and resources to... what exactly? Stare at your phone for a few extra minutes a day? Work from home and every city having robust electric transit systems is what the future is supposed to be.
I'm not a fan of self driving cars, but saying that people are able to drive cars is a stretch.
In general I am opposed to machines being in direct control of weapons. I am also definitely of the opinion that there are lots of people who shouldn't be driving.
Back when I still believed, I was excited because I wanted get in my car and take a 90-minute nap until I arrived at work.
With public transportation, you can only be half-asleep or you'll miss your stop.
I used to dream of watching a movie then falling asleep in bed while my car drove the 8 hours to my folks' house.
But I'd want that beast to be bristling with sensors of every kind. None of this "cameras only" idiocy.
Someday. Maybe.
I have a 45 minute high speed train commute to a busy end-of-line station. I can sleep, read, work, or just stare out the window and think.
Same commute is probably twice as long by car during rush hour.
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Typical piss poor quality from Leon Hitler. F Tesla.
It's full self-driving, doesn't need roads. Put into wrong car.