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You're grotesquely underestimating what fleet learning will do for traffic issues. The way I see it (as a software engineer myself), is that each wreck that th
by SEJeff 10y ago
You're grotesquely underestimating what fleet learning will do for traffic issues.
The way I see it (as a software engineer myself), is that each wreck that the AP did not prevent gets added as a test case in the AP unit tests that all have to pass. Also, each time a human wrecks, it could/will send the data to Tesla to continue simulations and ensure AP would not wreck in the same conditions.
How many of the wrecks, even fatal ones, essentially a different driver making the same mistake over and over? Likely millions. Real fleet learning would simply solve that problem once, and prevent thousands of fatalities as a result. As more and more AP capable cars hit the road, this simply will exponentially increase. Thirty years is laughable seeing how much computing has improved in merely the past 20. Maybe 5 tops assuming the legal hurdles are actually surmountable.
- imh 10y agoThat's such an inethical way to do it. You're suggesting that we just let it learn from wrecks in the real world, instead of trying to prevent those wrecks by other means? This, the Tesla strategy, feels despicable.
- aramadia 10y ago*unethical by the way. I figure the idea is to learn something as opposed to learning nothing like we do today.
- SEJeff 10y agoNo it isn't, in fact it is how Tesla AP2 works literally today. What do you think Tesla's new "shadow mode" is? http://www.theverge.com/2016/10/19/13341194/tesla-autopilot-shadow-mode-autonomous-regulations http://www.theverge.com/2016/10/19/13341194/tesla-autopilot-... They also have every single human driver wreck captured with AP capable hardware to make fully autonomous vehicles safer. The way they are doing it right now is brilliant. Edit: As Elon has previously said, not releasing something that saves lives is actually unethical. If a single life is saved by AP software that would have died if the vehicle was driven by human meatware, not releasing it is the unethical thing.
- vidarh 10y agoAny attempt to prevent wrecks we do now are based on learning from past real world experience. All fleet learning does is automate that process and apply it to self-driving systems so that the learning is systematic and will help everyone using said self learning system instead of having to wait for new advice and/or new safety mechanisms.