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I wish there were some external visual cue like a light or something to indicate a car is using autopilot. That way you could give them a wider buffer.
Maybe a pulsing red light, moving back and forth horizontally.
"by your command"
A longer Tesla demo video with no cuts: [1] This one is at a consistent speed, about 3x normal, and it's worth playing at 1/3 speed to see what's happening. No freeway driving; it's driving around the Page Mill Road / Los Altos Hills area. This video shows an ahead view and three of the vehicle's cameras with their annotations. The system puts rectangular 2D boxes around things it recognizes. Road centerline recognit…
Is there an easy way to play a Vimeo video at 1/3 speed?
Well it was certainly fun to watch. Aren't there more detection methods than just cameras? This is certainly the best one I have seen from them but I still want to see it at night, in rain, and such, times when people need the most help with driving. This was still too nice of weather to get a good impression of how far its come. Also, if the driver wants to exceed the speed limit of a road will autopilot allow them?…
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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."
If/When it's good enough that I can sleep during a long highway trip (and pull into the last rest stop before my exit if I don't wake up) then I'll be happy.
I think watching this in real-time would be more informative. At 1:32, it pull out on what looks like could be a busy road, then stops before starting again. It doesn't look so bad sped up in the video, but not great in reality.
I'm disappointed that radar images aren't included in the video. They ought to be very interesting, a whole new perspective on the world around us.
I'm disappointed that radar images aren't included in the video. They ought to be very interesting, a whole new perspective on the world around us.
What the car sees with radar does not translate directly to an "image" (it's not 2D radar, it's 1D with time of flight for depth).
That's impressive, but still an easy course compared to what I see daily in my (large) city. I'll get mine in February and am curious to see what it'll do in those narrow roads where 2 vehicles going in opposite directions can't pass each other sometimes.
I'm surprised by the number of Stop signs everywhere. Is that normal in US? Also, there are moments in this video where the car was turning left and a driver coming from the opposite direction was turning right - yet Tesla turned first? How? I really wish they provided a non-sped up video.
I agree, the roads are perfectly marked. It's early days but incorrectly hardly complex edge cases, like graffiti on the signs, could be a matter of life or death. I wonder if the AI just detects an intersection and if it doesn't know what to do, disengage?