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Doesn't Mercedes guarantee level 3 only on certain stretches of road? Shouldn't a better comparison take place there?
by Almondsetat 2y ago
Doesn't Mercedes guarantee level 3 only on certain stretches of road? Shouldn't a better comparison take place there?
- ajross 2y agoNot just the road. Drive Pilot is a radar based following technology. It won't drive on open roads at all, it can only follow a car in front of you that it has affirmatively detected on radar (the point being to eliminate the false positives that radar is known for). If it changes lanes or gets too far ahead the system will disengage. Likewise there's a speed limit of 60kph or somesuch, etc... It's mostly a stunt, basically. It's an answer to "What's the fastest path to SAE Level 3 in any context", not "How to engineer an autonomous driving solution?"
- llamaimperative 2y agoUhh no, it’s called good engineering versus over-ambitious marketing. Systems are designed for specific operational design domains and they are expected not to work outside of the ODD. The key thing is that the operator needs to understand what the ODD is and whether they’re inside or outside of it. Mercedes has a very clear ODD with very clear guarantees inside of it. Tesla does not have any established ODD nor any guaranteed performance inside of it. Mercedes is incrementally improving a system the exact way you’re supposed to engineer such a system. It is not an abuse of the SAE Levels framework, it is exactly why the levels are what they are! It is Tesla that is pulling off stunts.