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Autopilot Full Self-Driving Demonstration [video]

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Re: Autopilot Full Self-Driving Demonstration [video]

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Post by kalleboo »

Gys wrote: post #14
inimino wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On perfectly marked roads, in fair weather, with no bad behaviour seen from other drivers in the video. Impressive, but the technology has a long way to go yet before it can replace human drivers.

I do not understand why the focus on self driving is so much on the whole trip. 90 - 95% of the time I am driving long stretches, I spend on highways. No problem if only that part would be done selfdriving. Those few minutes in busy town centers I do not mind to do myself. No problem of driving short stretches (10 - 15 min) either.

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.

Re: Autopilot Full Self-Driving Demonstration [video]

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Post by cynix »

romanr wrote: post #16

So it appears it's reading the road signs? I see it stops on the intersection with a stop sign where's no traffic lights. But what if the sign is damaged or removed? The car will go straight without stopping?

If a stop sign was removed, I probably would've driven straight through without stopping too. How would I know there used to be a stop sign?

Re: Autopilot Full Self-Driving Demonstration [video]

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Post by kalleboo »

em3rgent0rdr wrote: post #21
Gys wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I do not understand why the focus on self driving is so much on the whole trip. 90 - 95% of the time I am driving long stretches, I spend on highways. No problem if only that part would be done selfdriving. Those few minutes in busy town centers I do not mind to do myself. No problem of driving short stretches (10 - 15 min) either.

maybe your driving behavior is different from other people. I live in a city and do about half time on city streets and half time on highways. Anyway, consistent performance on all parts of the trip is needed to convince buyers.

> needed to convince buyers

Buyers were convinced by "cruise control", which just (barely) keeps a set speed.

Re: Autopilot Full Self-Driving Demonstration [video]

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Post by chrisan »

romanr wrote: post #16

So it appears it's reading the road signs? I see it stops on the intersection with a stop sign where's no traffic lights. But what if the sign is damaged or removed? The car will go straight without stopping?

> But what if the sign is damaged or removed? The car will go straight without stopping?

Probably the same thing a new-to-the-area human would do if the sign was removed. Where I live there are many intersections where only 1 road has stop signs. I'd imagine there are other areas were the norm is a 4 way stop.

As for damaged, I would imagine it can still recognize the sign as often in image recognition you do not need the whole picture to confirm a match.

Re: Autopilot Full Self-Driving Demonstration [video]

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Post by Qworg »

Gys wrote: post #14
inimino wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On perfectly marked roads, in fair weather, with no bad behaviour seen from other drivers in the video. Impressive, but the technology has a long way to go yet before it can replace human drivers.

I do not understand why the focus on self driving is so much on the whole trip. 90 - 95% of the time I am driving long stretches, I spend on highways. No problem if only that part would be done selfdriving. Those few minutes in busy town centers I do not mind to do myself. No problem of driving short stretches (10 - 15 min) either.

It is so important to do the whole trip because switching costs for the driver from "totally inattentive" to "grasping the wheel and driving" are measured in seconds.

Anything less than 4 is asking for trouble.

Re: Autopilot Full Self-Driving Demonstration [video]

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Post by elisee »

I believe Tesla's AP 2.0 is built on NVIDIA's platform (with probably a lot of custom stuff, of course). If you want to learn more about how that kind of system works, that CES 2016 demo is very instructive, especially from 42:50 onwards: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2573&v=KkpxA5rXj...
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