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With the news about Uber and Tesla accidents, it’s been making me wonder: why not equip these cars with one more sensor: an infrared camera. Combining thermal information with extant information will be a great boon in making intelligent decisions, no?
I’m a fan of Tesla but when you see that their system is not a bit better than the competition (they’re all failing in low light conditions), I don’t know how they can claim autonomous driving “coming soon.” Especially after Uber’s death you’d think that this specific condition would be given extremely high priority.
> they’re all failing in low light conditions Isn't this an issue with lights ?
I’m a fan of Tesla but when you see that their system is not a bit better than the competition (they’re all failing in low light conditions), I don’t know how they can claim autonomous driving “coming soon.” Especially after Uber’s death you’d think that this specific condition would be given extremely high priority.
How is easy: it doesn't cost anything, and makes them profit.
It's like how the had the gal to nam their system "Autopilot" when it's not, and full awareness is required from the driver in the small print...
> "in most cases avoided hitting the pedestrian" I am not sure if this result merits the use of the word "aced" in the title.
I think it's fair to say that whether you hit the pedestrian is more or less irrelevant to your score on a pedestrian detection test.
Basically none of them are good enough for a real world scenario in a busy city. But they may save life on some scenarios which is good. They can achieve a huge safety improvement by forcing speed limit. But somehow car manufacturers don’t want to implement it.
So what's "good enough"? Even if these systems don't prevent all collisions they'll often vastly reduce the speeds at which they happen.
I’m a fan of Tesla but when you see that their system is not a bit better than the competition (they’re all failing in low light conditions), I don’t know how they can claim autonomous driving “coming soon.” Especially after Uber’s death you’d think that this specific condition would be given extremely high priority.
Now the current software does very well on limited access roads; highways and interstates; and has for over a year that I have owned the car. It does fine on two lane roads but the use cases there are far more limited and mostly to showing off for friends. Well that and doing stuff you normally would wait till your stopped to do.
I’m a fan of Tesla but when you see that their system is not a bit better than the competition (they’re all failing in low light conditions), I don’t know how they can claim autonomous driving “coming soon.” Especially after Uber’s death you’d think that this specific condition would be given extremely high priority.
They recognize much more objects on the road but major problem is to do not cause a lot of false alarms. e.g. You don't really want to drive car which decided that plastic bag on the highway is reason for emergency braking, on the other hand is that really plastic bag or some drunk person who is sleeping on the road... I remember when Volvo introduced IntelliSafe technology few years ago that car was totally "paranoi…
Anyone care to have a guess why?
I have to turn the pedestrian detection off every time I drive past the local school. Why? The kids figured out that it's really easy to make new cars emergency brake by just pretending to walk onto the road. People suck.
Imagine when someone realised you can slam on the brakes in front of X brand of car and it prioritises avoiding the car in front over all else
With the news about Uber and Tesla accidents, it’s been making me wonder: why not equip these cars with one more sensor: an infrared camera. Combining thermal information with extant information will be a great boon in making intelligent decisions, no?
I 100% agree but I would bet the issue is unit cost for the hardware. Anything with reasonable resolution is going to be in the four digit dollar range per sensor.