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A driver of a Tesla car has mentioned in this thread that the car sometimes doesn't register the hands on the wheel.
by whyever 8y ago
A driver of a Tesla car has mentioned in this thread that the car sometimes doesn't register the hands on the wheel.
- developerdanny 8y agoThat's anecdotal information.
- criddell 8y agoAnd Tesla is claiming otherwise. The driver in this thread likely has nothing to gain or lose by saying that, other than maybe the resale value of his car might be hurt. Tesla has a lot of reasons to be deceptive here. Plus, it's a pretty common complaint in Tesla forums. On the other hand, this is effectively an admission by Tesla that there are serious problems with the autopilot system. It should never guide the car into a barrier, no matter where the driver's hands are.
- jmulho 8y agoI believe it. Do you?
- eridius 8y agoSure, but I would expect the logs to have more information than just the boolean "are there hands?", e.g. maybe containing the actual sensor data that was used to determine if there were hands. The car should be conservative about the threshold it uses for the sensors in determining if there are hands (because it would rather err on the side of telling someone to put their hands back on, than err on the side of thinking someone has their hands on when they don't), but engineers analyzing the logs after a crash wouldn't have to use that same threshold when trying to determine if the driver was in control of the car at the time of the crash.
- oh_sigh 8y agoIt might not be 100%, but it is probably safe to assume that their hands weren't on the wheel because they went head first into a concrete wall.