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The "when travelling at highway speeds" in the excerpt I quoted does sound like this is a "field of view" issue considering that Autopilot may be turned on from
by ElBarto 8y ago
The "when travelling at highway speeds" in the excerpt I quoted does sound like this is a "field of view" issue considering that Autopilot may be turned on from 17mph.
As the car's speed increases, it must be able to look further ahead and to make sense of what it sees in order to avoid slow/stationary objects, and it seems to me that they have a limitation there.
It seems crazy to supply ignore "objects with large relative speed differences". These are the most dangerous ones!
They say Autopilot can detect a potential front collision within 160m and has an emergency braking feature, but the statement above seems to contradict that.
- matt_the_bass 8y agoI hear what you’re saying. I think part of the problem is none of the manufacturers are clear in what is their algorithm other than “its good and it works!” This is inline with the calls by many for a NTSB standard for testing such features. On a separate note, what’s the deal with min speed? My VW Atlas has a min speed of 34 mph.
- ElBarto 8y agoI wouldn't be surprised if the min speed what a simple way to say that their systems do not support congested urban environment, starting, and navigating. Basically, without a min speed people would try to use the car as a fully autonomous one: Get on the car, turn Autopilot on, wait for the car to drive itself.
- matt_the_bass 8y agoThat’s a good point. I hadn’t thought of that. Just to clarify, the adaptive cruise control in the Atlas works as low speed but lane keeping does not. I actually use ax all the time even in slow residential areas. It prevents me from inadvertently speeding.