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Autopilot Full Self-Driving Demonstration [video]

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Post by deepnotderp »

frik wrote: post #162
the8472 wrote: post #22

There 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…

Does this new Telsa autopilot use stereo cameras? Would stereo camera help to have a better 3D vision? Or is a video stream enough to get the 3D data. From the video it looks like lane detection and 2D object recognition. It might use a structure-from-motion (SfM) running on CUDA to get a 3D point cloud out of the 8 cams. Does someone know more about how their new auto pilot works?

I'd imagine they use stereo cameras. AFAIK though, their main sensor is radar.

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Post by emcq »

annerajb wrote: post #60

What's the most amazing is that Elon mentioned on twitter that it's only using data gathered in the past month since they announced the hardware/first video.

That's a little bit of a misdirection. They certainly learned a lot about how to build their models and what data is important, and this results in more effective training.

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Post by bb611 »

rebuilder wrote: post #81
kalleboo wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Autodriving 90% of the time would be a fantastic feature. Autodriving 100% of the time is where it gets revolutionary (mass-layoffs of truck drivers, taxi drivers, summon features that park cheaply outside of downtown). The former is great, but there's a lot of hype going around right now so it's not strange for people to be cynical.

Forget parking, the cars would be driving, ferrying people and goods around, as much as possible when not charging. No need to own one, just hail one when you need a ride.

That's practical, and for people like you and me who aren't bothered by the idea of not owning our own vehicle, but it's very culturally desirable in the US to own a personal vehicle. Not an unsolvable problem, but it will definitely be a bump in the road.

Re: Autopilot Full Self-Driving Demonstration [video]

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Post by sabujp »

I'd love to see this in $heavilyPopulatedIndianCity. ahha, found this : http://www.theunrealtimes.com/2016/09/17/top-secret-uber-tes...

these guys are doing it right (teach your car to drive on the other side of the road) : http://www.deccanchronicle.com/technology/in-other-news/0103...

Re: Autopilot Full Self-Driving Demonstration [video]

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Post by revelation »

Klathmon wrote: post #120
PinguTS wrote: post #91

Daimler 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 a horse could do it centuries before that, but that's not a fair comparison either. The car in that video had so much extra custom stuff it's not even funny. And while it's still a technical feat, I don't see every mercedes being sold with that equipment in it already. The reason this is amazing is because Tesla is planning on switching this on for all of their new cars in the very near future. It might not be th…

Where is all that extra custom stuff? Because the car looks perfectly normal, no Google-esque radar dome on top.

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Post by fao_ »

ghaff wrote: post #176
fao_ wrote: post #134

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Granted the accident would legally be the meat driven car's fault who bumps into the suddenly stopped Tesla. Exactly. If you bump into the car in front, because they stopped for a percieved hazard, it is your fault for tailgaiting, not their fault for percieving a hazard.

That's all very nice in theory but, in the actual real world, if you do a lot of unpredictable braking or other unexpected behaviors, you will basically get hit all the time even if those accidents aren't technically your fault.

Soon people will either adapt and end up following the law, or they will be unable to pay for insurance, because of the amount of claims that they're taking out against it.

I generally not a fan of social darwinism, but in this specific case, I think that something of the sort will have a positive effect. How many people have been injured because the car they were hit by was being forced to go faster, because of tailgaiting?

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Post by daenz »

AtheistOfFail wrote: post #179
dostick wrote: post #173

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, i mean what happens more often- if sign is not fully removed, but bent by collision or turned sideways by hooligans or something. Human would recognize that. Car will not.

Most algorithms can handle slightly turned signs. However signs that are gone could be dangerous.

Sounds like the cars should share a centralized database of critical sign locations, and cross reference their GPS location with the database. When they approach a location that the database says should have a sign, and one is not detected, it should behave as if there was a sign, and report the incident to somebody.
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