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The feature being a worldwide premier, with no past experience, I honestly expected that Tesla had added more sounds and visual warnings when the Summon feature

by antpls 7y ago

The feature being a worldwide premier, with no past experience, I honestly expected that Tesla had added more sounds and visual warnings when the Summon feature is running, such as flashing the car's headlights and emitting regular "bip" (like when a big truck is doing a reverse manœuvre), to catch the attention of other drivers, or even warn blind people when the Tesla is near. Then, once the feature is polished with more real world data, they can always remove the warnings later. The video with the white car coming through especially is scary. From all the sensors and marketing materials I know from Tesla, I would expect the Tesla to have detected that white car way sooner and stopped automatically. There was really no ambiguity to what decision to take here.

BoorishBears 7y ago
Does the Model 3 have a concept of stop signs (not just recognizing them, but understanding arrival order and how long to wait) and right of way? Or are they expecting to get away with just avoiding cars and pedestrians while breaking driving rules because it's a parking lot and blaming owners when it inevitably falls short. Tesla's track record leads me to believe the latter, but I'd love to find out something to the contrary. - Actually it looks like this is still controlled by holding a button? So yeah, guessing it has no concept of those andalmost-crash in video #2 would be expected behavior. Marvelous.
- mysterydip 7y ago
  If four teslas arrive at an intersection at the same time, do they all crash? :)
  - mannykannot 7y ago
    You say this as a joke, but I suspect they have been programmed to drive fairly aggressively, though probably to come to a halt before any collision that it can predict. If so, we might soon see two or more Teslas deadlocked, their fenders inches apart.
  - we_are_teslas 7y ago
    No, they play "eeny, meeny, miny, moe" to decide who goes first.

by antpls 7y ago

BoorishBears 7y ago

Does the Model 3 have a concept of stop signs (not just recognizing them, but understanding arrival order and how long to wait) and right of way? Or are they expecting to get away with just avoiding cars and pedestrians while breaking driving rules because it's a parking lot and blaming owners when it inevitably falls short. Tesla's track record leads me to believe the latter, but I'd love to find out something to the contrary. - Actually it looks like this is still controlled by holding a button? So yeah, guessing it has no concept of those andalmost-crash in video #2 would be expected behavior. Marvelous.

mysterydip 7y ago
If four teslas arrive at an intersection at the same time, do they all crash? :)
- mannykannot 7y ago
  You say this as a joke, but I suspect they have been programmed to drive fairly aggressively, though probably to come to a halt before any collision that it can predict. If so, we might soon see two or more Teslas deadlocked, their fenders inches apart.
- we_are_teslas 7y ago
  No, they play "eeny, meeny, miny, moe" to decide who goes first.