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But… minor bumps != airplane…

• throwaway0a5e 5y ago
  Does an airplane provide substantially more resistance than trying to roll through a decent sized pothole without the benefit of much momentum? That airplane is small enough it probably gets dragged around by hand when it's not chocked. The chocks small airports tend to use are pretty small to fit under the wheel fairings many small planes have. I can see it pushing the aircraft around by the tail.
  • tailspin2019 5y ago
    Fair enough. So judging by resistance alone may not be enough…. Needs additional forward facing sensors then? (For both long and short distance object detection?) Earlier on in Autopilot/FSD beta testing it was easier to overlook edge cases like this but I think we’re several years into this now and I’m starting to feel that at this stage it should be almost impossible for these cars to be driving into stationary objects. I’m a proponent of what Tesla are doing but they need to solve this ASAP now, whether by hardware or software, before it erodes too much more confidence (especially as it’s all too easy for people to extrapolate from these documented edge cases and believe these vehicles to be less safe than they actually are).
  • FireBeyond 5y ago
    > That airplane is small enough it probably gets dragged around by hand when it's not chocked. Vision Jet weighs 6,000 lb at MTOW. So, unlikely.
    • bombcar 5y ago
      6,000 pounds rolling weight is nothing much, it probably does get moved by hand using a tow bar. I've moved similar planes myself.