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To follow on, there has already been reported autopilot drifting and mismanaging that spot on the freeway (although without this catastrophic result). That fact
by jfrankamp 8y ago
To follow on, there has already been reported autopilot drifting and mismanaging that spot on the freeway (although without this catastrophic result). That fact adds to this description/explanation.
Aside: the following another car heuristic is dumb. It's ultimately offloading the AI/decision making work onto another agent, an unknown agent. You could probably have a train of teslas following eachother following a dummy car that crashes into a wall and they'd all do it. A car 'leading' in front that drifts into a metal pole will become a stationary object and so undetectable.
- microtherion 8y ago> the following another car heuristic is dumb. It's the Machine Learning equivalent of Zen navigation: http://dirkgently.wikia.com/wiki/Zen_navigation http://dirkgently.wikia.com/wiki/Zen_navigation
- elpool2 8y agoDoes it actually use the position of the car in front to determine where to steer? My Honda will sense cars in front of me but will only use that info to adjust speed when using cruise control.
- srwx 8y agoIt will if it can't get a lock on the lane markers. For example mine does this when navigating through large unmarked intersections which in my home town has many where the far side lanes don't align with the lanes before entering the intersection (due to added left and right turn lanes). My Tesla will follow a car in front as they slightly adjust position to the offset lanes on the far side (which is very cool) but if there is no car to follow I just take over knowing it'll not handle it well.