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>why does lately every Tesla-related post have a token "PR stunt" comment? Why does every single bit of Tesla "news" make the front page? I see 50 videos a da

>why does lately every Tesla-related post have a token "PR stunt" comment? Why does every single bit of Tesla "news" make the front page? I see 50 videos a day on Reddit of people miraculously avoiding accidents, never once on HackerNews. This is kind of cool, but I'm going to remain skeptical that it "predicted" the accident. There were other cars that also stopped in time. Did we expect it to bulldoze into the back of the cars? I mean, do people actually believe that Tesla has developed self-driving AI that is actually "predicting" accidents? Get enough cars on the road using the technology and we'll see amazing things that are hard to explain.

jdminhbg 10y ago
> I mean, do people actually believe that Tesla has developed self-driving AI that is actually "predicting" accidents? I don't understand what would be difficult to believe about this. It doesn't take super-sophisticated math to predict car X and car Y are too close and moving too fast to avoid an accident. It's mostly a matter of having the sensors to build an accurate map, and it seems like Tesla has that.
- forgetsusername 10y ago
  >I don't understand what would be difficult to believe about this. It seems like it could instantly react to the car in front drastically changing speeds (read: colliding with the car in front of it), and brake immediately. But predicting seems like a different issue, with far more false positives (Tesla hitting the brakes when it anticipates a potential collision). Is that happening? You could be right, but this video certainly hasn't convinced me.
thewhitetulip 10y ago
See the video again, the Tesla car stopped way before the other cars stopped, probably it is because the speed wasn't more. the car at the extreme right stopped _after_ the accident car turned twice, tesla almost stopped in an instant.

jdminhbg 10y ago

> I mean, do people actually believe that Tesla has developed self-driving AI that is actually "predicting" accidents? I don't understand what would be difficult to believe about this. It doesn't take super-sophisticated math to predict car X and car Y are too close and moving too fast to avoid an accident. It's mostly a matter of having the sensors to build an accurate map, and it seems like Tesla has that.

forgetsusername 10y ago
>I don't understand what would be difficult to believe about this. It seems like it could instantly react to the car in front drastically changing speeds (read: colliding with the car in front of it), and brake immediately. But predicting seems like a different issue, with far more false positives (Tesla hitting the brakes when it anticipates a potential collision). Is that happening? You could be right, but this video certainly hasn't convinced me.

thewhitetulip 10y ago

See the video again, the Tesla car stopped way before the other cars stopped, probably it is because the speed wasn't more. the car at the extreme right stopped _after_ the accident car turned twice, tesla almost stopped in an instant.