Another reason we want better battery life on phones. I can imagine a scenario when your car goes and parks itself and you come looking for it without phone battery. Super cool though. Love how they are challenging such a significant and resourced industry.
All Tesla Cars Being Produced Now Have Full Self-Driving Hardware
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#512Interesting 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 speculat…
I'd like to see a self-driving car navigate London's narrow streets with cars both sides and the negotiation that goes on between drivers about who goes first. I'm impressed with this self-driving on California's spacious streets in perfect weather. I'll be really impressed when I see a self-driving car go down a London street in pouring rain, realize it needs to allow someone to come from the other direction and rev…
or any street in India.
Re: All Tesla Cars Being Produced Now Have Full Self-Driving Hardware
#513Interesting 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 speculat…
I'd like to see a self-driving car navigate London's narrow streets with cars both sides and the negotiation that goes on between drivers about who goes first. I'm impressed with this self-driving on California's spacious streets in perfect weather. I'll be really impressed when I see a self-driving car go down a London street in pouring rain, realize it needs to allow someone to come from the other direction and rev…
You may be able to see this next year, volvo is planning a trial: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/apr/27/volvo-tes...
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#514> "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…
I don't think it's really fair to put it as dire as that, humans have more deaths, with similar miles, under their belts.
Many people are starting to realize that's the real test, especially those likely to be model S/≡/X customers.
Real consumer and public education on the nature of the problem is necessary though, especially if we want a safer self driving world.
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#515No bad, but it still needs to be taught to keep to the right. Unless this is how people normally drive in the US ?
In my experience, American driver ed doesn't cover this much at all, at least when I learned (the late 1990s). There are a lot of people who think "I'm going exactly the speed limit" means they should hang out in the "fast" lane.
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#516Very impressive...
BUT the car was driving itself in ideal conditions, with high visibility in all directions and amidst light traffic.
What I'm really hoping to see is a video of the car driving itself in more dangerous situations, such as in the middle of heavy rain or thick fog that limits visibility, or at night on a dangerous stretch of highway with lots of trailer trucks zooming by, or surrounded by tired angry drivers on a major holiday in a popular route with bumper-to-bumper traffic.
When self-driving cars can successfully navigate those and other similarly dangerous scenarios, we will know the technology is ready.
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#517Did 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.
This software is probably two years before release at minimum, and I wouldn't be surprised if it was more like four or five. Would you trust it at this point?
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#518About self driving cars in general: I am very concerned that self driving cars and speed limits are going to be a very annoying issue. I can see them drive way slow in semi-complicated situations annoying all other drivers. There are also many places in the county where it's normal and seemingly expected to go 5-10mp/h over the speed limit. Of course self driving cars will stay under the posted speed limit. I hope th…
I look forward to riding my bike 10mph in front of driverless cars.
This is one of the few things that excites me about driverless cars. People should be driving below the limit (and the limits should be about 10mph lower in a lot of places) for pedestrian safety. The fatality rate drops precipitously around 20mph.
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#519Interesting 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 speculat…
> Who wants to speculate how long it will be until self-driving cars are common place in the UK? And it should be able to automatically detect that it's in the UK and drive on the left side of the road... I'm curious - can you even get a Tesla in the UK (or Japan or Australia, etc), and do they make a right-side driver model?
They do make right hand drive cars. I've seen one in Hong Kong.
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#520Earlier quoted context omitted.
Whoa...reading that doesn't rub me the right way at all . I trust Tesla, though, so maybe I'm misreading/misinterpreting it.
Why do you trust Tesla? In what ways are their interests aligned with yours?
It's easy to assume that because Tesla is idealistic about climate change they're also idealistic about free software.