Tesla auto-pilot keeps confusing moon with traffic light then slowing down

The moon appears white/grey. Traffic lights are red, green, or yellow. Seems easy enough to make a distinction. Additionally the relative size of the moon in the sky does not change.

Re: Tesla auto-pilot keeps confusing moon with traffic light then slowing down

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Post by tapoxi » Wed, Jul 28, 2021, 8:13 PM UTC

How much of this company is smoke and mirrors?

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Post by jcranmer » Wed, Jul 28, 2021, 8:15 PM UTC

paulpauper wrote: post #6

The moon appears white/grey. Traffic lights are red, green, or yellow. Seems easy enough to make a distinction. Additionally the relative size of the moon in the sky does not change.

> The moon appears white/grey.

Not all the time. I've seen reddish/orangeish moons, especially if it's something near the horizon near sunset or sunrise. It's also reddish during lunar eclipses.

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Post by SirWart » Wed, Jul 28, 2021, 8:16 PM UTC

nomrom wrote: post #2

Use lidar, goddamnit.

lidar isn’t able to read the state of traffic lights as far as I know, and I believe lidar based systems detect the location of traffic lights from maps

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Post by dragonwriter » Wed, Jul 28, 2021, 8:17 PM UTC

hughrr wrote: post #3

I only have two cameras and have never confused the moon with traffic lights.

My three-year-old has mistaken a streetlight seen through her bedroom window for the moon more than once, but then I don’t let her drive either.

EDIT: Though even that isn't a traffic light, and not the other way around.