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The real world is full of 'edge cases' that humans can deal with through their intuition and understanding of context. Humans are unlikely to mistake a yellow-i
by walrus01 5y ago
The real world is full of 'edge cases' that humans can deal with through their intuition and understanding of context. Humans are unlikely to mistake a yellow-ish moon for a yellow traffic light unless very intoxicated.
I'd like to see a Tesla on full autonomous autopilot take a drive in Calgary or Edmonton a few days after a heavy snow, when it's been mostly plowed but the lines are missing from the roads, all the lines at the side of the road are covered in snow, etc.
- Retric 5y agoAt level 3 they just reject things back to the driver if they can’t see road markings. Longer term GPS makes that an easier problem for self driving cars than bad weather. The post blizzard random trails through deep snow seem like a more difficult challenge, largely because it’s so rare.
- jvm_ 5y agoLanes in heavy snow covered roads are more of a suggestion. You can either drive on the bare 'wagon tracks' of road, or on the proper lane (that you can't even see) with 6-12 inches of snow on them. Often when driving like this, you see a glimpse of the middle-yellow line inside one of the wagon tracks, and you realize that you're actually driving in part of the other lane. Fortunately the opposing traffic's wagon tracks are also shifted so that they're driving partially on the shoulder. A GPS guided car would make a mess of the wagon track pattern that all the humans decided to just go with.
- Retric 5y agoI am not talking 6-12 inches, when it’s 4+ feet of snow even pickup trucks need to stick to the valley’s which rarely have much to do with traffic lanes.