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Is there corroboration that this actually is self-driving? I suppose we'd need Tesla's cooperation. Is it possible to replay the "AI view" of the same thing? Ca
by AtlasBarfed 5y ago
Is there corroboration that this actually is self-driving? I suppose we'd need Tesla's cooperation. Is it possible to replay the "AI view" of the same thing? Can any FSD beta users chime in?
I will say that two lane highways (aka offset impact at 110mph+ IF/BIG IF they aren't speeding) are pretty damn dangerous and I'd only do self-driving on them with a LOT of repeats. I think I'm getting close to the point of trusting self-driving on divided highways under good conditions, the big caveat being stopped cars/obstacles.
It sure doesn't help that every Tesla post on HN has comments that seem like obvious astroturfs. It's like jalopnik in the comments.
Transparency is a must. The new NHTSA head doesn't help, we do need someone to hold Tesla's claim to the light, but appointing someone with publicly posted anti-Tesla screeds? That doesn't help anything.
Self driving could save tens of thousands of lives (perhaps hundreds of thousands worldwide) each year and be a legitimate boon to the economy. NHTSA needs a dedicated group of government officials with legit industry and software experience to test, regulate, and analyze incidents. Plus it would be apocalypse to one of my less favorite sectors in the world: the auto insurance industry.
NHTSA should have immediate delivery of Self-Driving accidents with all the footage and any recorder information immediately uploaded to government servers with an active software harness to replay the logs. And it's not like this would be occaisionally tested, even with high-quality theoretical self driving, there will be daily accidents to replay from every significant vendor.
- avereveard 5y ago> impact at 110mph can we get the "frontal impact == impact at sum of speed" myth die already? it's been thoroughly debunked over and over. the only way it's relevant is if there's a large weight difference between vehicles.
- catlikesshrimp 5y ago"Self driving could save tens of thousands of lives (perhaps hundreds of thousands worldwide) each year..." Launching a self driving car which crashes head on into traffic is not a good start. If they used unmaned Teslas for the live traffic tests they would be risking less lives. /s It is interesting that consumers kind of volunteer to test a potentially lethal product. I say "kind of volunteer" because they are actually paying for the car.
- sidibe 5y agoNot just the car, they are dropping an additional 10k to be specifically part of the test.