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> Do you test the Autopilot feature? Wouldn't creating a much safer vehicle be real progress? What you don't understand is deploying a driving assistance featu
by steego 10y ago
> Do you test the Autopilot feature? Wouldn't creating a much safer vehicle be real progress?
What you don't understand is deploying a driving assistance feature is probably the fastest and most efficient way of improving the system because it is the fastest way to collect huge amounts of data. When used properly (As the machine reminds you each time you use it), it should always be a safer option than regular driving with the added benefit of providing valuable data to improve the system.
You should rephrase your question to: "What value is an Autopilot if it kills you when you use it in a way it explicitly told you not to?"
- ethbro 10y agoI can't think of too many recent ML breakthroughs that haven't largely come on the back of access to enormous data sets. Interestingly, curious if that's why Tesla equipped cars with sensors before enabling autopilot as a user option. Hypothetically, can't see why they couldn't have downloaded the autopilot code to cars and been running it in ghost mode while users drove, generating faults whenever errors were encountered and sending the relevant sensor data back home.
- aab0 10y agoThere's no reason Tesla/MobilEye couldn't be using an off-policy reinforcement learning algorithm, no.
- jsprogrammer 10y agoYou assume a lot about my understanding. Deep plowing was probably the fastest and most efficient way to farm the Great Plains because you could quickly and easily turn up huge tracts of fertile land. Then the dust storms came. What value is an Autopilot that knows you are not using it the way you are supposed to, but keeps accelerating you anyway?
- steego 10y ago> What value is an Autopilot that knows you are not using it the way you are supposed to, but keeps accelerating you anyway? Good point. An autopilot, whose sole purpose is learning, should make sure the user is engaged so it's provided correcting feedback.