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Autopilot Full Self-Driving Demonstration [video]

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Re: Autopilot Full Self-Driving Demonstration [video]

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Post by rebuilder »

kalleboo wrote: post #41
Gys wrote: post #14

Earlier 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.

Forget parking, the cars would be driving, ferrying people and goods around, as much as possible when not charging. No need to own one, just hail one when you need a ride.

Re: Autopilot Full Self-Driving Demonstration [video]

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Post by TeMPOraL »

kalleboo wrote: post #45
em3rgent0rdr wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

maybe your driving behavior is different from other people. I live in a city and do about half time on city streets and half time on highways. Anyway, consistent performance on all parts of the trip is needed to convince buyers.

> needed to convince buyers Buyers were convinced by "cruise control", which just (barely) keeps a set speed.

s/convince buyers/avoid mass accidents caused by drivers becoming even less attentive than they're now/. Cruise control doesn't cause that, but a "90% there" self-driving solution will.

Re: Autopilot Full Self-Driving Demonstration [video]

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Post by TeMPOraL »

em3rgent0rdr wrote: post #19
inimino wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On perfectly marked roads, in fair weather, with no bad behaviour seen from other drivers in the video. Impressive, but the technology has a long way to go yet before it can replace human drivers.

A real convincing promo video would be in stormy weather with angry, unpredictable drivers and random jaywalking kids.

Well, give them time :). Maybe they can use this video to leverage the generated PR into getting themselves allowed to shoot the next video at more difficult conditions :).

Re: Autopilot Full Self-Driving Demonstration [video]

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Post by ciconia »

romanr wrote: post #16

So 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?

Normally if there's no priority sign, the principle of priority to the right[0] should be employed.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priority_to_the_right

Re: Autopilot Full Self-Driving Demonstration [video]

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Post by celticninja »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #73
the8472 wrote: post #22

There 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…

The car might have been playing on the safe side. If you look at the joggers carefully, only the left one is marked as an "in-path object", the other one has just an "object" box. They could probably tune down the collision prediction algorithm just a little bit, but that has to be done very carefully .

Why bother, err on the side of caution with pedestrians. The driver is already benefiting from auto pilot, a minor delay due to safety of other road users would be acceptable to most.

Re: Autopilot Full Self-Driving Demonstration [video]

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Post by TeMPOraL »

DanielBMarkham wrote: post #68
jasonlingx wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And inevitably the AI will still be/become faster and safer than humans.

Absolutely yes. I can't wait for that day. We'll end up saving more lives per year than if we somehow banished war, at least in industrialized countries. What's weird is the period we're entering, where the technology is becoming more and more capable, but we're still a very long ways away from full auto. Yet the hype machine says it's just around the corner. I'm betting we're still 10-15 years out. So how do we hand…

> What's weird is the period we're entering, where the technology is becoming more and more capable, but we're still a very long ways away from full auto. Yet the hype machine says it's just around the corner.

I think it would be worthwhile to figure out how to shut down the hype machine, or at least tune it down a few notches. Dreams and visions are fine, but every time I switch the current tab from HN to Facebook, I get to see overhyped bullshit predictions about AI, nanotech, self-driving cars, etc. being just about the corner, as evidenced by whatever misinterpreted paper or video news sites could find that day. And the non-tech crowd is totally buying that. Not just regular folks, but also investors and politicians and all the other people who then end up causing resources to be wasted because they buy into the bullshit.

Re: Autopilot Full Self-Driving Demonstration [video]

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Post by GunboatDiplomat »

mhomde wrote: post #76
tsaprailis wrote: post #4

There's also the longer (3:28) video with the Paint It Black theme: https://www.tesla.com/videos/autopilot-self-driving-hardware...

That's really weird choice, who are picking these songs? :) I can't imagine they've licensed the music either... I guess next up is the "Highway to Hell" video

My guess? Elon.

Re: Autopilot Full Self-Driving Demonstration [video]

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Post by celticninja »

justinv wrote: post #33
smnscu wrote: post #25

Wow 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.

I think Elon Musk had a lot to do with the video, I imagine the music was his choice. Very few other people could suggest this tune due to its previous comedic use.

Re: Autopilot Full Self-Driving Demonstration [video]

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Post by celticninja »

sliken wrote: post #3

Impressive to watch. The Tesla drives quite politely, but not annoyingly so (read that as impeding traffic). It actually stopped for the joggers who wasn't actually in the road, but very close. It also waited for a bicyclist on the right to turn left in front of the car. Looks pretty promising, not bad, especially since the trend in software (and sensors) is to get better over time.

As a cyclist that was nice to see.
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