Wow so many comments about the Benny Hill music. I for one love that Elon Musk's quirky sense of humour. So many people take themselves far too seriously.
We are talking about a car that decapitated its driver this year.
Autopilot Full Self-Driving Demonstration [video]
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#122There's also the longer (3:28) video with the Paint It Black theme: https://www.tesla.com/videos/autopilot-self-driving-hardware...
That's really weird choice, who are picking these songs? :) I can't imagine they've licensed the music either... I guess next up is the "Highway to Hell" video
It feels like they edited the video and then picked a song that exactly matched the video's length.
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#123That'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.
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#124Daimler done that 3 years ago even in high density city traffic. Daimler could even pass vehicles that covered half the lane and didn't need to stop for them. https://youtu.be/SUOC8tE4bdM
And it has a proper emergency stop button!
I'm curious what that button does? Does it go full "emergency brake" mode and stop the car ASAP, or does it give control back to the driver?
I could see the former being useful during development, but I wouldn't want a "slam on the brakes" button in my car. And the latter could be much more easily worked out by just switching under any driver input on the steering wheel.
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#125Daimler done that 3 years ago even in high density city traffic. Daimler could even pass vehicles that covered half the lane and didn't need to stop for them. https://youtu.be/SUOC8tE4bdM
Very cool video. Said Daimler was using 8 radars and three cameras, so sort of the inverse of the Tesla approach.
The Tesla video is a bit more exciting, because it is using a car that consumers are already driving, whereas the Mercedes has "aftermarket" sensors and a computing platform built in. Mercedes is impressive on the other hand, because that was three years ago.
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#127I don't know about other countries, but at least in the Netherlands the Benny Hill song is used mainly in videos to ridicule the subject. I remember when funny 'Home Videos' were a thing on TV (before cats took over on the interweb) this song was used in about 90% of them. So to me, using this song in something as serious as a self driving car demonstration is pretty weird.
On the Internet, specifically on the Something Awful forums, it was was infamously paired with footage from 9/11 and posted either the day of, or the day after, the attacks. The video is called "tribute.wmv": https://youtu.be/2AYujWCCHRk
Re: Autopilot Full Self-Driving Demonstration [video]
#128There seem to be some issues. E.g. it recognizes the joggers (0:55) as obstacles even though they're obviously (to a human) on the sidewalk. And when taking a right turn (1:01) it mistakes a hydrant and a parked car in a parking bay on the other side for an obstacle and stops for a moment before noticing that they're not actually in its lane. I think a polite driver may have slowed down gradually to not startle the j…
the jogger is a problem because the legs are so flimsy :)
If you don't see the legs and don't have very accurate 3d vision, the object might just as well stand further away in the middle of the road: http://malea.lacerta.uberspace.de/up/e92e6492-ce56-468b-8e09...
I think the hydrant is the same problem: head on you don't have any parallax effect to do know the distance, so if you don't detect where the thing is rooted to the ground you might guess it's in the way.
and it completely fails do detect the right end of the lane (the moments before I was amazed how it still drove so fluid)
I think 0.25x is the right speed if you want to watch it in realtime
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#129Wow so many comments about the Benny Hill music. I for one love that Elon Musk's quirky sense of humour. So many people take themselves far too seriously.
We are talking about a car that decapitated its driver this year.
Why should an unfortunate death involving something mean that their marketing can't be fun or lighthearted.
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#130Earlier quoted context omitted.
And it has a proper emergency stop button!
I'm curious what that button does? Does it go full "emergency brake" mode and stop the car ASAP, or does it give control back to the driver? I could see the former being useful during development, but I wouldn't want a "slam on the brakes" button in my car. And the latter could be much more easily worked out by just switching under any driver input on the steering wheel.
I work in the automotive industry for a manufacturer. All of our prototypes have big emergency stop buttons in the center console using 3D printed adapters to slot into the cup holders.
They just kill the engine and disconnect the battery. It's a legal requirement. Nothing fancy.