Daimler done that 3 years ago even in high density city traffic. Daimler could even pass vehicles that covered half the lane and didn't need to stop for them. https://youtu.be/SUOC8tE4bdM
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Re: Autopilot Full Self-Driving Demonstration [video]
#92Fastest speed clocked in at 35mph during the entire trip with an average of 15-25mph for remainder of the time. Does this suffice a realistic use case? Specifically in US?
In town, with the level of traffic seen? Yeah, it's keeping to the posted speed limits. Realistically, I'd be doing 5 to 10 over except in explicit residential zones, when there are cops (limit to 5 over), and when traffic doesn't allow it.
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#93So 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?
Maybe it's relying on maps & GPS data.
No tesla expert but I think they have an extension package that would let the car adjust itself based on previous "experience".
IIRC it would automatically make a note of your location when you pass speed bumps or bad patches of road and adjust the suspension accordingly.
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Curious, why do you think so? Wouldn't make much sense to throw all that stuff away.
For the same reason it makes no sense to keep your Sega Saturn games when you now have a Playstation. There are some testing scenarios which Tesla should be able to use, ut none of the software from MonilEye has relevance to Nvidia's platform.
I know I'm probably gonna get downvoted, but I cannot not bite. I'm super happy I kept my Saturn games. I still play them occasionally and some of them are very valuable now. I also hope you meant PS3 or PS4 when you said "PlayStation" and were not trying to revive a long gone console war that was very painful for some of us.
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#95There 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…
Interestingly, it behaved just like a young learner-driver would - play it safe, be cautious, and give extra space to the joggers because a new driver is a little uncertain about controlling a 6,000 lbs hunk of moving steel so close to delicate humans.
It's astounding to realize the AI will learn and change it's habits, just like a young human driver learning.
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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.
Haha, I find the image of him doing that, and no one daring to try change his mind, hilarious for some reason. I can see it escalating:
"So for our next video let's set up smoke machines on the road here, and then we'll have a camera team in front capturing it coming out of the smoke in slow-motion with "Smoke On the Water" as soundtrack. It's going to be amazeballs!"
"Umm, ok Elon..."
"Put in a lion roar as well"
"I quit."
Re: Autopilot Full Self-Driving Demonstration [video]
#97I think the choice of music is quite clever, makes it seem jolly and approachable, instead of the connotations of solemn futurism that self-driving usually has.
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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.
It's inconveniencing other drivers on the road and much more importantly this erratic stopping from a human perspective might make it more likely to cause an accident. Granted the accident would legally be the meat driven car's fault who bumps into the suddenly stopped Tesla. It would still be nice to play well with human drivers who don't have the luxury of relaxing in a self driving car.
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A real convincing promo video would be in stormy weather with angry, unpredictable drivers and random jaywalking kids.
Agreed. Throw in some fog, high-speed stop-and-go interstate fun, and moving from the interstate into a crowded city full of people jaywalking and running stoplights trying to get to where they're going.
Throw in some electric scooters diving in and out, bicycles, crazy couriers, cars parked on the road, someone pushing a hand-cart, an ambulance, and at least one of each of these kinds of vehicles going the wrong way and disregarding all traffic laws.
Or, as we call it in China, "driving".
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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.
you're looking at it from the wrong perspective. the car just wanted to slow down to give the male driver time to properly look at the female joggers.
I don't want my car to be like the creepy telepathic dog from "A boy and his dog" that is always looking for partners for his owner to mate with.