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I recently test drove a Tesla just to see how the autopilot system works. The way they handle traffic lights is pretty entertaining. It seems them, particularly

by sfblah 5y ago

I recently test drove a Tesla just to see how the autopilot system works. The way they handle traffic lights is pretty entertaining. It seems them, particularly yellow lights, in a lot of situations that are truly perplexing. It also had a tendency to turn trees into traffic cones and to be truly impressive at detecting garbage cans. On some level it's hard to understand exactly what they're trying to do there. I also remember being at an intersection where I was turning left and was waiting behind another car. The display repeatedly showed cars the cars crossing in front of us crashing into the car in front of me. Not sure why.

Sohcahtoa82 5y ago
When I got my Tesla back in November 2019, when stopped at traffic lights, cars next to me would be shown to rotate randomly and jiggle and dance. It works much better now, but it was always kind of amusing. It only did it when we were all stopped. Moving cars (whether it was them moving or me) were rendered just fine. My guess is that it was extrapolating movement based on more than one "frame" of sensor data, but at a stop there's no changes beyond noise, and the noise was being extrapolated into extreme movements. I have seen it show cars "crashing" into me, but it's only semis when in the neighboring lane.