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Nice for them use Tesla but I'm pretty sure you can do it with every sign reading auto throttle system. There are plenty of cruise control systems which employ
by consp 7y ago
Nice for them use Tesla but I'm pretty sure you can do it with every sign reading auto throttle system. There are plenty of cruise control systems which employ similar technologies.
- shiftpgdn 7y agoOr a person who misreads the sign. Though the whole point is that a Tesla doesn't have the context to know that a residential zone with an 85mph speed limit sign is obviously some sort of error.
- toast0 7y agoYou don't need residential context. You just need US context. I have never seen an 85 MPH speed limit sign in the US, ever. Up to 65 is common, with 70 or 75 sometimes on well maintained roads between urban areas. I can't recall seeing an 80, but I feel like maybe once or twice.
- drunken-serval 7y agoThere’s an 85mph in one place in Texas. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_limits_in_the_United_States https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_limits_in_the_United_S...
- pwinnski 7y agoHello from Texas! There's a pretty long stretch of road between Austin and San Antonio that's 85 the whole way. It's not as big as the I-35, but the higher speed limit means it draws quite a bit of traffic for people traveling between the two cities. Point stands: 85 is ridiculous in anything like a residential area.
- bazeblackwood 7y agoAccelerating to 85mph on a street where that speed is unsafe is absolutely not what a person who misreads the sign would do. 35mph tend to be that way for a reason (residential, stop signs, curved streets)
- rootusrootus 7y agoIn particular, Tesla no longer uses sign-reading (it is patented). They use OSM. Using Teslas for this experiment was undoubtedly calculated for the increased exposure it would get.
- tehlike 7y agoHow about road work situation?
- wtvanhest 7y agoIn the future, road work should go into a database for self driving cars to access in real time. The police and government should have the ability to put in place speed limiting blocks on public roads for various reasons. A good example would be school zone at specific times.
- gambiting 7y agoThis solution is so unrealistic I almost want to laugh. The local "police and government" barely have any funds to operate, potholes go unfixed for months, streetlights are switched off at night to save money, but yes, someone will keep an eye out to update a database for self driving cars. Yep, I'd predict the chances of that happening here are exactly zero.
- rootusrootus 7y agoIt doesn't seem that far fetched to me. When the freeway closes for a wreck, flood, etc, Google maps knows very quickly. Construction projects are planned, so it shouldn't be a stretch for that information to be available online pretty accurately.
- tehlike 7y agoRoad work or situations where the road is not in good condition will be hard to be put in a dabase realtime. Also, since this is united states, which database? Every state will have a different one. Either way, my point is digitized information is helpful, but not sufficient