Looks like Tesla self driving cars 'dry steer', something that my driving instructor always told me not to do.
What's dry steering?
[deleted]
All Tesla Cars Being Produced Now Have Full Self-Driving Hardware
471–480 of 1001 posts
Re: All Tesla Cars Being Produced Now Have Full Self-Driving Hardware
#472Is this video sped up to make it seem like the car is more capable? It seems jumpy, and, for the speed at which the car is going and comes to a stop, there is not as much lurching as I would expect.
it's definitely sped up, watch all the way to the end when the guy gets out of it.
i'm not sure if it makes the car seem more capable though. if anything, i was worried that the car seemed to be accelerating and decelerating dangerously quickly until i realized it was sped up.
Re: All Tesla Cars Being Produced Now Have Full Self-Driving Hardware
#473Re: All Tesla Cars Being Produced Now Have Full Self-Driving Hardware
#474So, lets be clear then, you do not truly own the car. Am reminded of ebook and movie purchases - you're only just licensing the item. You own next to nothing.
Do you really care about owning something that much? What difference does it make if it gets you from A to B all the same?
Re: All Tesla Cars Being Produced Now Have Full Self-Driving Hardware
#475Interesting for two reasons:
1. It is a self driving car, it is so clearly the future, I wish it existed now, it is going to be awesome (in my opinion).
2. Despite knowing about and following news about driverless cars for a while, there was something surprisingly (to me) compelling about watching the video. It's like you get a little taste of the full A to B that it can give you (door to door).
Who wants to speculate how long it will be until self-driving cars are common place in the UK? I need to know how long I have to save..!
Re: All Tesla Cars Being Produced Now Have Full Self-Driving Hardware
#476Direct link: https://player.vimeo.com/video/188105076
This is also the video embedded in the main press release (discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12748863) and this news article: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/oct/20/tesla-rel...
Re: All Tesla Cars Being Produced Now Have Full Self-Driving Hardware
#477> "The person in the driver seat is only there for legal reasons"
> Person gets out and let's car park itself
But seriously the tech is very impressive. The journey was rather simple though, and didn't cover more difficult areas (inner city driving, heavy stop start traffic, roadblocks, road accidents and so on). I hope that Tesla test these things thoroughly because they've already got one death under their belt, it won't take many more to put people off completely.
Re: All Tesla Cars Being Produced Now Have Full Self-Driving Hardware
#478Did you see how close the guys hands were to gripping the steering wheel? Obvious he didn't trust it completely :)
Still, very cool. And the presence of cameras everywhere should help navigate insurance/accident stuff everywhere, I'd hope.
Re: All Tesla Cars Being Produced Now Have Full Self-Driving Hardware
#479Earlier quoted context omitted.
You might be forgetting about Google Maps vans.
I would assume that Google Maps vans aren't driven in the same manner as other cars. They've got a large complicated camera system on top, so presumably they're driven very conservatively, and presumably they're also not driven particularly fast (kind of hard to capture good pictures when you're driving really fast). Which is to say, if Google wants self-driving Google Maps vans, then collecting data using Google Map…
Again, speaking as someone who has knowledge of the products, I can tell you that the Google Maps vans are useful for recording geography but would not be terribly portable to a new sensor suite mounted to a different car.
In the OP where I mention outfitting an example 2019 car, that car might be a current-model-year car with roughly similar vehicle dynamics to the proposed 2019 model. The only thing that they are paying particular attention to is the specific sensors in use and their placement on the vehicle. This apparently is critical to development of the driving model, the camera on the test vehicle must be in the precise position and direction and must react in the same way as the production model or the data is bordering on useless.
Now, with a full 3D pointcloud and enough sensor data you might be able to translate one recording into a lower-resolution resampling to model the production version, but I've not heard of anyone doing that. Test data is collected on the production sensor suite, no changes allowed.