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Doesn't matter how long it is if you're pointing the same way.
by robotresearcher 8y ago
Doesn't matter how long it is if you're pointing the same way.
- macintux 8y agoIn this case the Tesla hit a truck that was perpendicular to its direction of travel.
- sverige 8y agoAnd the rear of a dry van truck is 8 1/2 feet wide by 13 1/2 feet high, so if it can't detect that, how is it supposed to avoid another car, let alone a pedestrian? This case (truck perpendicular to travel path) should literally be the easiest test case for object detection, other than larger stationary objects like buildings and bridges.
- macintux 8y agoI seem to recall that the last time this scenario (truck across the path of travel, although in that case it wasn't moving) led to an accident, the Tesla mistook it for a bridge. I suspect this is going to be a perpetual problem for vehicles without lidar, but I'm not particularly clueful.
- tyingq 8y ago"the Tesla mistook it for a bridge" That's interesting. I can imagine, lacking real depth information, why that would happen. Especially for specialty trailers, like the ones that pull logs or wind turbine blades... where there's a large open area under the cargo.
- toomuchtodo 8y agoTesla is pushing the bounds of the signal they can extract from the forward facing radar (as a result of the first Autopilot trailer accident resulting in a death). https://www.tesla.com/blog/upgrading-autopilot-seeing-world-radar https://www.tesla.com/blog/upgrading-autopilot-seeing-world-...
- robotresearcher 8y agoAh. Bigger than a proverbial barn door then.