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Tesla Autopilot Almost Steers Model 3 into Oncoming Train

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Re: Tesla Autopilot Almost Steers Model 3 into Oncoming Train

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We are living in the ‘good old days’ when you could deploy your self driving car with minimal regulatory oversight. In 5 years time it will be very different. The company that collects the most quality data in this laissez-faire environment may gain an unassailable lead.

Re: Tesla Autopilot Almost Steers Model 3 into Oncoming Train

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Actually, that steering into the oncoming train is just one of several severe instances in that video: * Almost driving right into a barrier because road is closed: https://youtu.be/yxX4tDkSc_g?t=426 * Choosing the wrong lane and getting confused: https://youtu.be/yxX4tDkSc_g?t=666 * Trying to run a red light, right into traffic: https://youtu.be/yxX4tDkSc_g?t=732 * Stopping in the middle of an intersection without r…

That is terrifying! I try to stay away from Teslas I see on the road because they are completely unpredictable. I think I'd prefer being near a poor driver with their attention on the controls to Autopilot with a poor driver not paying attention. Any test on public roads of a system that performs like this should have a professional team actively, directly monitoring it. Not just any rando who happened to be able to…

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Re: Tesla Autopilot Almost Steers Model 3 into Oncoming Train

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Sue, I guess. Seems like they would settle quickly because fighting tens of thousands of lawsuits would look bad. And, maybe anyway cost more than settling.

That's why they hired the 'hard core street fighter litigation team'…

But he promised to use them only for good, not for evil! (I may have just strained my eye-rolling muscle)

Re: Tesla Autopilot Almost Steers Model 3 into Oncoming Train

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??? I thought that was what it was for. Or maybe for making wacky collision vids on YouTube? Tesla just closed their whole self-driving office in San Mateo, and fired ("for poor performance") most of the staff, directing some to come to work across the bay. For now. People still employed on that activity would best update their résumés. People who paid for self-driving already? I would ask for a refund, in your shoes…

That’s a misleading headline. Tesla let go of their labeling team because they weren’t needed anymore.

Whenever somebody calls musk the smartest man in the world, they don't understand the connection between data labeling and Tesla's propensity to stop for nothing and crash into stopped emergency vehicles.

Re: Tesla Autopilot Almost Steers Model 3 into Oncoming Train

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This feels like an escalation from the usual cars and bollards and things. Possibly The Algorithm has become bored, and we can expect a series of robocars menacing more and more unlikely vehicles, culminating in a spectacular near-miss with a zeppelin.

A Tesla on Autopilot took out a helicopter today...

Elon Musk commented "That was totally rad, and his engineers were in the process of attempting to replicate the finding as a new "Vigilante" mode to become available next Thursday, probably."

Re: Tesla Autopilot Almost Steers Model 3 into Oncoming Train

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This is model 3. You have to expect some compromises on the budget systems. Do the flagship models (S, Plaid) have better systems?

We do not, in fact, have to expect compromising the safety of everybody on the road just because it is a "budget" product.

Re: Tesla Autopilot Almost Steers Model 3 into Oncoming Train

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Why is the guy an idiot?

Tesla claims FSD is in beta. Subjecting unwilling children into this beta testing seems at the very least reckless, if not other less savoury words.

I’d like to live too

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I just can’t understand why you’d give up control to a system that’s clearly still in beta. The cost of failure is way too high to take the risk.

Because they're led to believe all this public beta "testing" actually does something to improve the system. So they go out on roads, enable FSD and click the feedback button when it makes a mistake. It's pure theatre as it does nothing to a system fundamentally poor.

They /are/ the training data and trainers in a very literal sense. Every time they correct or take control over FSD I imagine it gets fed back into the training data. Will it ever create a fully self driving system? Maybe.

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Why is the guy an idiot?

I don't know if the guy is an idiot or not but I personally wouldn't have handed the wheel over to an AI right next to a school bus in order to find out if it was going to run the kids over.

Seems like he had it under control, and was recording it in order to publicize the problem and possibly get it fixed.
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