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Its just a matter of time before the injured and dead count starts increasing. Tesla needs to take their responsibility and disable AutoPilot before more people die because of its severe faults and flaws.
Currently the amount of injured and dead is falling for both Tesla cars and Tesla cars while on Autopilot.
Its just a matter of time before the injured and dead count starts increasing. Tesla needs to take their responsibility and disable AutoPilot before more people die because of its severe faults and flaws.
Currently the amount of injured and dead is falling for both Tesla cars and Tesla cars while on Autopilot.
Can any other Traffic-Aware Cruise Control (TACC) stop in such a case? (Real question, I don't know). My current understanding is that Tesla's TACC is the best on the market. Correct?
Here’s an an article from last year:
https://www.wired.com/story/tesla-autopilot-why-crash-radar/
https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a24511826/safety-featu...
Can any other Traffic-Aware Cruise Control (TACC) stop in such a case? (Real question, I don't know). My current understanding is that Tesla's TACC is the best on the market. Correct?
What are we going to find out next, water is wet? Every radar cruise control system comes with a warning that it can't detect stopped traffic. This seems like a case of RTFM.
Can any other Traffic-Aware Cruise Control (TACC) stop in such a case? (Real question, I don't know). My current understanding is that Tesla's TACC is the best on the market. Correct?
I haven't found conclusive evidence, but the lack of news around other TACCs crashing into stationary objects is an indicator it might be a Autopilot specific issue.
> My current understanding is that Tesla's TACC is the best on the market. Correct?
Define best. It definitely has a lot of features few or no other systems have; on the other hand, it's a test program. It's officially Beta-Software, given to drivers to test and identify issues. So from a feature-set it's probably the best you can buy - but it turns you into a Test-Driver rather than a user of a product.
This has been true for a long time. Radar can't differentiate between a wall, a stopped car, or a dead skunk. Heck, it can get confused with a bridge's shadow on a bright day. Thus autopilot has to be configured to deal with these situations: stop or run into them. The vast majority of the situation you don't want the car to stop, as that will lead to a more dangerous situation and increase the chance of a collision.…
"Radar" absolutely can.
What can't differentiate between these things is the radar in Teslas that was intended for use in adaptive cruise control. There are any number of not insanely expensive radars that could do this job perfectly fine. Tesla just decided to go "full self driving" with this rather bad radar because "humans can do it with vision only!!!1!!!1!"
Can any other Traffic-Aware Cruise Control (TACC) stop in such a case? (Real question, I don't know). My current understanding is that Tesla's TACC is the best on the market. Correct?
This is a deficiency in several automatic emergency braking systems [1]. Tesla extracts as much signal from front facing radar as they can, but edge cases abound. Marketplace or Planet Money had a piece a few weeks ago that mentioned the hardest problem was consumer education about these safety systems. People are inherently not interested in learning about the life safety systems in their cars. They expect it to “ju…
This not news. This has existed from the first iteration of Tesla Autopilots. That is why there where crashes with stationery vehicles for Tesla. This is shortcoming for using only cameras or any vehicle that has adaptive cruise control. The problem is that the front camera cannot distinguish from the road and a stationery vehicle. For that, they are the same and they ignore stationary obstacles. If they where taken…