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After reading this I'm thinking Tesla claims of being close to achieving level 5 autonomy aren't pure hot air. Toyota's requirement of "8.8 billion test miles f
by kieranmaine 7y ago
After reading this I'm thinking Tesla claims of being close to achieving level 5 autonomy aren't pure hot air. Toyota's requirement of "8.8 billion test miles for safe deployment of self-driving vehicles", puts Tesla well on the path to this. I found articles online stating Autopilot has driven 1 - 1.2 billion miles. Assuming that they've gathered many more miles of test data of human driving, then at least they have the raw data on which to iterate their platform. Whilst I'm still skeptical I've gained a new appreciation of how pushing the autopilot package allowed them to gain a big advantage in terms of raw data.
- shawabawa3 7y agoI personally think Tesla simply doesn't have the sensors for self-driving. I imagine the huge amount of data they've collected is largely useless because they aren't collecting the right data (e.g. LIDAR, radar, higher definition video)
- pas 7y agoThey probably have the right data for safe disengagement. If they can solve that, the rest truly can be incrementally added.
- skohan 7y agoAfter riding in a Model X recently using Autopilot I am less skeptical than before.
- usrusr 7y agoRacking up a very high number of fair weather easy miles has zero effect on the machine's ability to tackle more difficult situations.
- kieranmaine 7y agoVery valid point, but Tesla's fleet will drive in a greater variety of weather than Waymo's, potentially gathering a better data set. However as another comment points out it could all be garbage data.
- asdff 7y agoLet's have it try to commute in boston during a noreaster before we call it safe.