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Tesla engineers talked about this in great depth during the recent streaming event. Manual disengagement of Autopilot is the mechanism used to trigger an upload
by deckar01 7y ago
Tesla engineers talked about this in great depth during the recent streaming event. Manual disengagement of Autopilot is the mechanism used to trigger an upload of the sensor data. It is automatically uploaded to Tesla servers and used to train the driving model.
- rjdagost 7y agoA Twitter user who rooted his Tesla claims that autopilot disengagement reports are very small (< 1 KB) and do not contain any actual sensor data, just things like GPS coordinates, speed, heading, etc.: https://twitter.com/greentheonly/status/1096322810694287361 https://twitter.com/greentheonly/status/1096322810694287361 Not the kind of information that you use to train computer vision algorithms. I found his claims to be an interesting read.
- Maxious 7y agoHowever the rest of the thread explains that Teslas are "trigger"ed to capture imagery data (in rapid succession, almost like a video) in a variety of situations like being close to pedestrians/cyclists not just disengagements.
- natch 7y agoDefinitely interesting but I wouldn’t trust a rooted system to behave the same as a non-rooted system. Nor is there any guarantee that the snapshot in time when he did his research is representative of everything they do. And such logging behavior can vary by car, by location, and by software version. I tend to think it is in Tesla’s interest to collect the most useful data, efficiently, and make good tradeoffs when doing so. They say they are gathering data on interventions that will help improve their neural nets. I believe them.
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- mft_ 7y agoYou might want to read the whole Twitter thread again. The long section where he describes “campaigns” is Tesla's mechanism for capturing high quality data based on certain triggers, and including pictures.