Another Tesla on autopilot steers towards a barrier
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Re: Another Tesla on autopilot steers towards a barrier
#2This comment from OP (beastpilot) is pretty frightening:
> Yep, works for 6 months with zero issues. Then one Friday night you get an update. Everything works that weekend, and on your way to work on Monday. Then, 18 minutes into your commute home, it drives straight at a barrier at 60 MPH.
> It's important to remember that it's not like you got the update 5 minutes before this happened. Even worse, you may not know you got an update if you are in a multi-driver household and the other driver installed the update.
Very glad the driver had 100% of their attention on the road at that moment.
Re: Another Tesla on autopilot steers towards a barrier
#3People aren't going to tolerate this kind of stuff. These aren't cosmetic or aesthetic flaws. This is an area that deserves transparency.
I'm out on the road too, and I don't get to make "consumer choices" for other people I share the road with. People are putting their market power into companies that lack the basic integrity to build these technologies with safety and transparency as the first priority, who evidently see peoples' lives as necessary sacrifices.
Please remember that we are talking about vehicles speeding down the road at 70+ MPH.
Re: Another Tesla on autopilot steers towards a barrier
#4If Tesla autopilot relies on good quality road markings, then it's not yet usable in 80% of the world.
Re: Another Tesla on autopilot steers towards a barrier
#5Scary as hell for me since I go through this exact location on a regular basis. The location is the Seattle i-5 northbound express lanes, where the express lanes end and merge into the main freeway at Northgate.
Re: Another Tesla on autopilot steers towards a barrier
#6This comment from OP (beastpilot) is pretty frightening: > Yep, works for 6 months with zero issues. Then one Friday night you get an update. Everything works that weekend, and on your way to work on Monday. Then, 18 minutes into your commute home, it drives straight at a barrier at 60 MPH. > It's important to remember that it's not like you got the update 5 minutes before this happened. Even worse, you may not know…
The future!
Re: Another Tesla on autopilot steers towards a barrier
#7To be fair it steers _toward_ the barrier. No barriers were harmed.
Does Tesla run some sort of regression suite on this stuff? Can they get a copy of the sensor data from when this happened so they can reproduce those conditions as part of their test suite?
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#8If Tesla autopilot relies on good quality road markings, then it's not yet usable in 80% of the world.
It's not usable anywhere. What if I draw a fake line on the road? will it follow it? what if you have wet paint and another vehicle smudges it diagonally to the lane?
Re: Another Tesla on autopilot steers towards a barrier
#9If Tesla autopilot relies on good quality road markings, then it's not yet usable in 80% of the world.
It's not usable anywhere. What if I draw a fake line on the road? will it follow it? what if you have wet paint and another vehicle smudges it diagonally to the lane?
Exactly. This is what I’ve been saying. It is so dangerous. I love Tesla but I think autopilot is currently a death trap.
Re: Another Tesla on autopilot steers towards a barrier
#10What does this say about the quality of the automatic emergency braking, if it can't detect a substantial metal object directly in front of the car?