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All Tesla Cars Being Produced Now Have Full Self-Driving Hardware

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Re: All Tesla Cars Being Produced Now Have Full Self-Driving Hardware

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serg_chernata wrote: post #538
cs702 wrote: post #516

Very 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 angr…

The new array will be using 8 cameras and 12 ultrasound sensors for precisely those conditions.

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Re: All Tesla Cars Being Produced Now Have Full Self-Driving Hardware

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Post by irishcoffee »

buro9 wrote: post #488
Diederich wrote: post #431

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> very large roads I've seen quite a few Google self driving cars on Castro in Mountain View. http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4082/4939372588_47979bceec_z.... That picture doesn't do it justice during the most busy hours of the evening, where there's tons of people crossing and bicycles flying about in every direction. Given that, I've never seen a crowded street in Napoli or a crossroad in Ho-Chi Minh, but I can imag…

> Given that, I've never seen a crowded street in Napoli My three tests for self-driving cars would be: 1. Drive through Milan on a Saturday afternoon, from the outside of the city, and park on the opposite side of the centre of the city. 2. Drive through London during a weekday, similar thing... cross the centre and find a parking space and park. 3. Drive through Paris during a weekend, same deal. Those three cities…

> 3. Drive through Paris during a weekend, same deal.

Having recently returned from Paris, I was completely flabbergasted by the driving patterns. It was surreal. I am excited about Tesla and this self-driving car, I really am. If it can in fact navigate around the city of Paris on a Saturday I'm not sure how I would react. Probably wouldn't believe it.

Re: All Tesla Cars Being Produced Now Have Full Self-Driving Hardware

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Post by YCode »

EA wrote: post #468

Police departments around the country are going to see a loss of revenue. No more rolling through stop signs, illegal lane changes, or speeding tickets.

I suspect they'll adapt to pull people over for things like sleeping in the driver seat, "embracing another while driving" and such.

They could also shift to giving out more domestic or pedestrian tickets for things like music being too loud and jay-walking.

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Post by S_A_P »

esquevin wrote: post #565
S_A_P wrote: post #537

So what do these cars do when the hit a puddle of mud and it covers all the cameras. Will there be a new form of vandalism where someone puts scotch tape over/destroys the vehicles cameras and now your fancy autonomous vehicle is rendered incapacitated. Maybe this seems unlikely or ridiculous, but the dependence on cameras at points on the car that seem likely to get dirty and or damaged seems to be a risk to me.

What'd you do if you drove over mud and it covered your windshield ?

turn on the windshield wipers. Last I checked there were no water jets, wipers or other cleaning devices for the camera lenses on any Tesla. Again, maybe it seems like a small thing, but its still something you would have to worry about. Imagine driving down a dirt road and your autonomous car becomes disabled until you get out and clean the cameras.

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Post by miguelrochefort »

akio wrote: post #505
wodenokoto wrote: post #482

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The parking space could be private and the road public and might therefore have different rules about drivers.

It was Tesla's HQ in Palo Alto.

Look at that parking. All Teslas!

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Post by maxerickson »

tonylemesmer wrote: post #589

"The person in the driver seat is only there for legal reasons" - how do Tesla reconcile this with the "summon" feature? How can they market the summon feature and say the Tesla could find you on the other side of the country unless it has someone in the driving seat touching the steering wheel?

It's a demonstration of the technology they have, not of the technology that will be available to consumers tomorrow (the hardware is in the cars, the software isn't).

Part of getting the software deployed will be figuring out the legal situation.

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Post by CoryG89 »

ceejayoz wrote: post #515
pyb wrote: post #495

No 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.

I may be wrong, but I think a lot of people would argue there is no such thing as the "fast" lane. Just a regular lane, and a "slow" lane.

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Post by fareesh »

1) If a self-driving car is involved in an accidental death. Is the justice system equipped to effectively hold a trial where information like logs, debugging information, etc. are discussed in court to validate whether or not there is any liability on the part of the manufacturer, considering the car is driving itself?

2) What happens in the case of bugs or system-level crashes? What is it about car software that makes it "not broken" compared to the other software we write?

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