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A long drive slightly less fatiguing is better than a short drive in a limited area of operation. This, I think, is why Tesla will eventually succeed. Every Te
by cbozeman 6y ago
A long drive slightly less fatiguing is better than a short drive in a limited area of operation.
This, I think, is why Tesla will eventually succeed. Every Tesla sold is gathering data about its environment and phoning home - we already know that. So whether you have Autopilot or not, Tesla gets data for its Full Self-Driving Capability; when you swerve to avoid a possum at 12:47 a.m. because you've been working all day and night and into the morning and you really need some Whataburger, or, if you must... In-N-Out..., some engineer somewhere at Tesla can look at that event, see why you swerved out of lane, recognize it was a possum, and then jot that down into his or her notebook...
twwooo... forrrtty-seeeven... ayyy emmm... driver swwwerved... to avoid... possum..., integrate possum-avoidance behavior into Autopilot for next release...
- mlyle 6y agoThat would be valid if Tesla is really collecting all of that data. But the people who have done analysis of what the cars sends back say that what is actually sent is very limited statistics on times, locations, and general characteristics of disengagements (speed, direction, list of detected targets, etc). This is doubtlessly useful but it's not something you can just drop into training a neural network or even be sure exactly what the issue was. They can write query strings for very specific situations they're interested in, too, and receive video frames. On the other hand, Waymo is gathering vision data on every drive, and ground truth LIDAR data.
- lupire 6y agoIf it were that easy then Tesla could have just bought dash cam video from drivers of all cars, and have far more data.