Autopilot Full Self-Driving Demonstration [video]

#1

Post by megakid » Sat, Nov 19, 2016, 8:53 AM UTC

Autopilot Full Self-Driving Demonstration [video]
tesla.com

Re: Autopilot Full Self-Driving Demonstration [video]

#2

Post by comboy » Sat, Nov 19, 2016, 10:34 AM UTC

To be completely fair, you can show me almost anything with Benny Hill music in the background and I will enjoy it ;)

Anybody knows if these 3 cameras on the right are the only ones used by the auto pilot?

Re: Autopilot Full Self-Driving Demonstration [video]

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Post by sliken » Sat, Nov 19, 2016, 10:36 AM UTC

Impressive to watch. The Tesla drives quite politely, but not annoyingly so (read that as impeding traffic). It actually stopped for the joggers who wasn't actually in the road, but very close. It also waited for a bicyclist on the right to turn left in front of the car.

Looks pretty promising, not bad, especially since the trend in software (and sensors) is to get better over time.

Re: Autopilot Full Self-Driving Demonstration [video]

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Post by tsaprailis » Sat, Nov 19, 2016, 10:36 AM UTC

There's also the longer (3:28) video with the Paint It Black theme: https://www.tesla.com/videos/autopilot-self-driving-hardware...

Re: Autopilot Full Self-Driving Demonstration [video]

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Post by noir_lord » Sat, Nov 19, 2016, 10:37 AM UTC

The Benny Hill theme tune was a pretty unfortunate choice of background music, not sure if that's the impression they wanted to make (maybe it was, not sure).

Re: Autopilot Full Self-Driving Demonstration [video]

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Post by sz4kerto » Sat, Nov 19, 2016, 10:39 AM UTC

I think the most interesting part of this video is that there's a lot of fog.

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Post by inimino » Sat, Nov 19, 2016, 10:40 AM UTC

sliken wrote: post #3

Impressive to watch. The Tesla drives quite politely, but not annoyingly so (read that as impeding traffic). It actually stopped for the joggers who wasn't actually in the road, but very close. It also waited for a bicyclist on the right to turn left in front of the car. Looks pretty promising, not bad, especially since the trend in software (and sensors) is to get better over time.

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.

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Post by disillusioned » Sat, Nov 19, 2016, 10:41 AM UTC

comboy wrote: post #2

To be completely fair, you can show me almost anything with Benny Hill music in the background and I will enjoy it ;) Anybody knows if these 3 cameras on the right are the only ones used by the auto pilot?

No. The system uses 8 cameras. Three forward facing (narrow, wide, standard), two rear facing sides (the two showed here), one rear, and two side cameras.

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Post by cybertronic » Sat, Nov 19, 2016, 10:43 AM UTC

tsaprailis wrote: post #4

There's also the longer (3:28) video with the Paint It Black theme: https://www.tesla.com/videos/autopilot-self-driving-hardware...

https://player.vimeo.com/video/192179727 for sharing just the video

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Post by LeonM » Sat, Nov 19, 2016, 10:43 AM UTC

I 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.