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Improving maps only papers over the issue at this one particular place. What happens when this happens somewhere else, where there's no marking in the map instr
by Piskvorrr 9y ago
Improving maps only papers over the issue at this one particular place. What happens when this happens somewhere else, where there's no marking in the map instructing the lane-keeping software "this is a known bug, follow the right lane marker here"?
- simion314 9y agoI don't mean of marking this spot, but soemthing like 1 this is a new road, "autopilot" will not engage but collect data and add it to the map 2 after 100 or other better number of cars passed that point and the maps are updated enough AP can engage 3 if radar+camera detects something that does not match the maps it slows down and asks the human to take over, the maps are used as a way to double check what the AI wants to do. This system will not work on small roads with few Tesla cars on them but it will prevent problems on big roads and collect useful data to add to the unit tests
- Piskvorrr 9y agoIn other words, better roads get better, worse roads get nothing. Isn't that reinforcing the current problem of "SDVs drive well in areas where SDVs drive well; beyond the map edge there be dragons"? See my reply earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16706856 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16706856
- simion314 9y agoIs not this better then no road gets safer? At least high traffic roads get safer, less damages and live lost, fixing the bugs that are discovered here could improve the situation on smaller roads. My idea was how they could act on this situations with the drive assist tech(stupidly named autopilot) I am not of the opinion that true self driving cars are around the corner, not even in major US cities.
- Piskvorrr 9y agoSure, for autonomy ~level 3, this would be okay. I, too, dislike the rhetoric "just patch this one specific killing bug and voila, full auto!"