I would love to see how autopilot works in different cities (e.g Mexico City, Rome, Buenos Aires). I Just found "I tested Tesla Autopilot in Manhattan traffic — and lived to tell about it" http://mashable.com/2015/11/06/tesla-autopilot-new-york/
Autopilot Full Self-Driving Demonstration [video]
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#52There seem to be some issues. E.g. it recognizes the joggers (0:55) as obstacles even though they're obviously (to a human) on the sidewalk. And when taking a right turn (1:01) it mistakes a hydrant and a parked car in a parking bay on the other side for an obstacle and stops for a moment before noticing that they're not actually in its lane. I think a polite driver may have slowed down gradually to not startle the j…
It passes a single jogger without an issue beforehand, but they were two when the car stopped and left one was relatively close to the lane when the car was approaching. Maybe it wouldn't stop if it was a single jogger.
If you pause it at 0:54 it clearly made a mistake. The foot of the left person is outside the green box, the car thought the person was further forward and to the left of where they really were. Good progress but not ready for prime time.
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#53I don't know about other countries, but at least in the Netherlands the Benny Hill song is used mainly in videos to ridicule the subject. I remember when funny 'Home Videos' were a thing on TV (before cats took over on the interweb) this song was used in about 90% of them. So to me, using this song in something as serious as a self driving car demonstration is pretty weird.
Technically the tune is called the "Yackity Sax" but it may well be more widely known as the Benny Hill theme tune.
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#54best part at end: you can save time by exiting before the car parks itself.
I thought the best part was the car doesn't need to park anywhere near. Large parts of cities will be freed for us to use.
Large parts of cities will be turned into roads for driverless cars to ferry themselves to and from the office 2x as many times to save the owner $10 on parking. Traffic will go slowly because driverless cars don't care about speed when no one is inside. And then all the plebs still driving their own cars will be stuffed.
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#55I would absolutely love to see how it handles roundabouts in the UK. Some of the ones I use daily are pretty hairy even for a competent driver.
And then there's the magic roundabout in Hemel Hempstead! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ih223jffmek
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#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
I do not understand why the focus on self driving is so much on the whole trip. 90 - 95% of the time I am driving long stretches, I spend on highways. No problem if only that part would be done selfdriving. Those few minutes in busy town centers I do not mind to do myself. No problem of driving short stretches (10 - 15 min) either.
Autodriving 90% of the time would be a fantastic feature. Autodriving 100% of the time is where it gets revolutionary (mass-layoffs of truck drivers, taxi drivers, summon features that park cheaply outside of downtown). The former is great, but there's a lot of hype going around right now so it's not strange for people to be cynical.
I think anywhere between 80% and 99.999% would cause a lot of accidents... "good enough to not pay attention and be inattentive when it needs your help, not good enough to not need your help."
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#57So it appears it's reading the road signs? I see it stops on the intersection with a stop sign where's no traffic lights. But what if the sign is damaged or removed? The car will go straight without stopping?
If there is no STOP sign, I don't see how it would know to stop. However, what's interesting is if it goes through an intersection with a STOP sign and the next day the sign has been knocked over by strong wind - will it stop? What if the sign is missing, but there's a STOP sign on the opposite end of the intersection - a human driver will infer that his own side also has a STOP sign, but will the car?
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#58Wow so many comments about the Benny Hill music. I for one love that Elon Musk's quirky sense of humour. So many people take themselves far too seriously.
Do you think that Elon Musk was the one to put this out (or even design the video)? I'd have a hard time believing that, to be honest.
Probably not. But if he doesn't like it, I wouldn't want to be the person who did put this out.
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#59Very cool demonstration (despite curious choice of music!). I did notice that the lane markings are suspiciously bright and well-painted throughout the video. Almost as if they'd been touched up by Tesla! Or maybe this area just has particularly diligent road-painting crews. In many parts of the real world you'd be lucky to get such clear lane markings throughout the journey, certainly not here in the UK or in places…
In my autopilot gen 1 Tesla, when the software was first released, lane markings had to be really clear, but as the software has matured, it now does less than perfect lane marking in pretty heavy rain without issue.
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#60What's the most amazing is that Elon mentioned on twitter that it's only using data gathered in the past month since they announced the hardware/first video.