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I'm curious how Tesla FSD works with obstacles that aren't cars or people on roads. Where I drive, I often have to slam on my brakes to avoid hitting deer, turk

I'm curious how Tesla FSD works with obstacles that aren't cars or people on roads. Where I drive, I often have to slam on my brakes to avoid hitting deer, turkeys, small rodents, running over squashed skunks, etc. I assume that Tesla FSD would notice some of these obstacles, but it wouldn't be able to notice a deer on the edge of the road and identify it as slowdown-worthy... would it? Curious if any rural Tesla owners can chime in on this -- it's not exactly a documented feature.

g_p 5y ago
Similarly curious - my understanding is that Tesla w/ FSD effectively drives as a relatively selfish and "reactive" driver, theoretically dealing with anything entering its driving path. I'd also be interested to know if the Tesla FSD can react to "foreseeable second order" issues that an experienced driver is expected to respond to. For example, a pedestrian crossing (giving priority to pedestrians) where visibility of the waiting pedestrian is obscured by a parked vehicle. A human driver can recognise they lack visibility of the footpath around the crossing (and recognise the crossing by road markings and street furniture), and therefore slow on approach, since there is a risk they may need to stop rapidly.
- cmsj 5y ago
  that principle of "slow on approach, since there is a risk" is something I don't feel like I've seen in any of Tesla's videos. Even the ones where they are proudly showing a Tesla avoiding a collision with a person, the car seems to leave it to the very last second and then slams on the brakes, where my mind is already screaming "BRAKE BRAKE BRAKE" a couple of seconds after I would have started a precautionary slowing.
  - thrashh 5y ago
    I have no idea how we’re ever going to achieve trustworthy self-driving cars before we achieve full artificial intelligence. I know how I react to different situations is fully contingent on recognizing what I’m actually looking at and being able to generate a risk probability model in real-time. If I don’t know what I’m looking at, I have to be extremely conservative and if I had to do that every time, my driving would probably be very uncomfortable.
lostlogin 5y ago
Your question is interesting, as weird things happen even in cities, and not infrequently. > I'm curious how Tesla FSD works with obstacles that aren't cars or people on roads. This video would appear to show it the Tesla plowing into a lit up, stationary car. It looks to be dark, but that’s abysmal.
rsj_hn 5y ago
I'm out in the country and often see quails and jackrabbits running across the road (both appear extremely suicidal in darting in front of cars). I can't imagine any auto-pilot being able to deal with that. Now I know the areas where they tend to dart, so precautionary slow driving helps, but would an auto-pilot know that as well?

g_p 5y ago

Similarly curious - my understanding is that Tesla w/ FSD effectively drives as a relatively selfish and "reactive" driver, theoretically dealing with anything entering its driving path. I'd also be interested to know if the Tesla FSD can react to "foreseeable second order" issues that an experienced driver is expected to respond to. For example, a pedestrian crossing (giving priority to pedestrians) where visibility of the waiting pedestrian is obscured by a parked vehicle. A human driver can recognise they lack visibility of the footpath around the crossing (and recognise the crossing by road markings and street furniture), and therefore slow on approach, since there is a risk they may need to stop rapidly.

cmsj 5y ago
that principle of "slow on approach, since there is a risk" is something I don't feel like I've seen in any of Tesla's videos. Even the ones where they are proudly showing a Tesla avoiding a collision with a person, the car seems to leave it to the very last second and then slams on the brakes, where my mind is already screaming "BRAKE BRAKE BRAKE" a couple of seconds after I would have started a precautionary slowing.
- thrashh 5y ago
  I have no idea how we’re ever going to achieve trustworthy self-driving cars before we achieve full artificial intelligence. I know how I react to different situations is fully contingent on recognizing what I’m actually looking at and being able to generate a risk probability model in real-time. If I don’t know what I’m looking at, I have to be extremely conservative and if I had to do that every time, my driving would probably be very uncomfortable.

lostlogin 5y ago

Your question is interesting, as weird things happen even in cities, and not infrequently. > I'm curious how Tesla FSD works with obstacles that aren't cars or people on roads. This video would appear to show it the Tesla plowing into a lit up, stationary car. It looks to be dark, but that’s abysmal.

rsj_hn 5y ago

I'm out in the country and often see quails and jackrabbits running across the road (both appear extremely suicidal in darting in front of cars). I can't imagine any auto-pilot being able to deal with that. Now I know the areas where they tend to dart, so precautionary slow driving helps, but would an auto-pilot know that as well?