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Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but your last paragraph seems to imply that the "Tesla approach" is unable to "plan an emergency maneuver for collision avoidance"

Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but your last paragraph seems to imply that the "Tesla approach" is unable to "plan an emergency maneuver for collision avoidance" If true, that would seem to mean that Tesla's self-driving car program is dead on arrival. Clearly emergency collision avoidance is not optional for a self driving car with mass adoption. That's a pretty serious claim to make.

Animats 10y ago
Here's 25 minutes of what Tesla is currently shipping as their latest release.[1] This is not freeway driving, but suburban roads, which the current system really isn't intended to support. It gives a good sense of what the system can and can't handle. Traffic islands turn out to be a big problem, especially if the lane line leads to the center of the traffic island, not the edge. This is what happens when you're not profiling elevation. The system also loses its edge reference when passing wide driveways. Realistically, this thing is good for long freeway drives, and not much else. Detection of other vehicles, as shown on the dashboard display, is far below the level Google has demonstrated. Often, there's a nearby car that's not showing on the display. This probably reflects that Tesla only has vision and radar forward; side sensing is just short-range sonar, like a backup warning system. What self-driving software Tesla is going to ship in the future is not publicly known, but we do know the sensor suite they're currently using, and it's far below Google or Volvo level for situational awareness. [1] https://electrek.co/2017/03/18/tesla-autopilot-2-autosteer-test-video/ https://electrek.co/2017/03/18/tesla-autopilot-2-autosteer-t...