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> You first have to recognize that the system is failing or about to fail For that to work, I'd like that cars that have features like this show you what they'

> You first have to recognize that the system is failing or about to fail For that to work, I'd like that cars that have features like this show you what they're seeing. Tesla does this a bit by showing all the cars it has detected in the dashboard. But it should go further and other car brands should do the same. Without that, you're right, you can not be sure if the car is going to react to something on its own.

linsomniac 8y ago
I honestly don't know where Tesla's head is. I'm surprised that when I turn on the turn signal to change lanes, and the car has detected something in my blind spot via sonar sensors, that it doesn't give me a tone or something. Let alone showing me video from one or both of that side's cameras. Tesla, in putting it's targets on self driving, has omitted a lot of low-hanging fruit that would make significant day-to-day difference to drivers right now.
- jvreagan 8y ago
  Interesting. My 2013 BMW vibrates the steering wheel if it thinks I'm going to move sideways into something (and that includes fast moving cars coming from behind) or it beeps loudly if it thinks I'm going to hit something in front of my based on my speed and distance of the object in front. And its highly accurate IMHO. My take on self-driving is someone needs to hook up these signals to controls on the car - the "hard part" does a reliable job.
  - FireBeyond 8y ago
    Similar, my 2015 Audi will rapidly blink "inside" lights on either side as soon as I turn on my indicator if there's something in a blind spot. It's also at least somewhat adaptive to their speed too (i.e. if someone is behind me but at the same speed, it won't warn, but if they're a few car lengths behind at a notably higher speed, it will).
Someone1234 8y ago
I'm legitimately surprised nobody has a HUD that simply displays all detected objects/potential obstacles. They have this data, just pipe it up to a HUD.
- semi-extrinsic 8y ago
  Nobody does it because it would clearly point out to everyone that the self-driving emperor has no clothes.
- KineticLensman 8y ago
  If you are watching a very complex display, why not present it in a format the driver will understand without training, such as a processed video image. Here [1], [2] are some (very optimistic) mock-ups. There was another one released in the last few days but I can't find the link. Showing anything like the raw data with rapidly changing risk annotation would get tiring very quickly, especially as it masks the view the human is actually able to understand, the raw view. [1] https://futurism.com/self-driving-car-video/ https://futurism.com/self-driving-car-video/ [2] https://next.reality.news/news/augmented-reality-cars-companies-tech-driving-us-into-future-0182485/ https://next.reality.news/news/augmented-reality-cars-compan...

linsomniac 8y ago

I honestly don't know where Tesla's head is. I'm surprised that when I turn on the turn signal to change lanes, and the car has detected something in my blind spot via sonar sensors, that it doesn't give me a tone or something. Let alone showing me video from one or both of that side's cameras. Tesla, in putting it's targets on self driving, has omitted a lot of low-hanging fruit that would make significant day-to-day difference to drivers right now.

jvreagan 8y ago
Interesting. My 2013 BMW vibrates the steering wheel if it thinks I'm going to move sideways into something (and that includes fast moving cars coming from behind) or it beeps loudly if it thinks I'm going to hit something in front of my based on my speed and distance of the object in front. And its highly accurate IMHO. My take on self-driving is someone needs to hook up these signals to controls on the car - the "hard part" does a reliable job.
- FireBeyond 8y ago
  Similar, my 2015 Audi will rapidly blink "inside" lights on either side as soon as I turn on my indicator if there's something in a blind spot. It's also at least somewhat adaptive to their speed too (i.e. if someone is behind me but at the same speed, it won't warn, but if they're a few car lengths behind at a notably higher speed, it will).

Someone1234 8y ago

I'm legitimately surprised nobody has a HUD that simply displays all detected objects/potential obstacles. They have this data, just pipe it up to a HUD.

semi-extrinsic 8y ago
Nobody does it because it would clearly point out to everyone that the self-driving emperor has no clothes.
KineticLensman 8y ago
If you are watching a very complex display, why not present it in a format the driver will understand without training, such as a processed video image. Here [1], [2] are some (very optimistic) mock-ups. There was another one released in the last few days but I can't find the link. Showing anything like the raw data with rapidly changing risk annotation would get tiring very quickly, especially as it masks the view the human is actually able to understand, the raw view. [1] https://futurism.com/self-driving-car-video/ https://futurism.com/self-driving-car-video/ [2] https://next.reality.news/news/augmented-reality-cars-companies-tech-driving-us-into-future-0182485/ https://next.reality.news/news/augmented-reality-cars-compan...