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by keanzu 7y ago
I think that was the price for Velodyne's 64 laser LIDAR. They've discontinued it and now the top of the line is the Alpha Prime VLS-128 which has 128 lasers and is ~$100K. There are many other cheaper LIDARs, even in the Velodyne
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by keanzu 7y ago
SAE Level 5 is completely transformative, it will utterly change the market and the use of cars. Once you can conveniently call up an automated Uber the need, at least in cities, to buy your own car will effectively vanish. This is Uber&#x2
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by keanzu 7y ago
> It shows Teslas have much fewer accidents than the average car Tesla’s Driver Fatality Rate is more than Triple that of Luxury Cars (and likely even higher) https://medium.com/@MidwesternHedgi/teslas-driver-fatalit
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by keanzu 7y ago
There are no mountains at the cruise altitude of a 747. TCAS will provide a warning 30 seconds before collision and the Airbus A380 has an autopilot with integrated TCAS avoidance. So it will hit neither mountains (too low) nor other aircra
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by keanzu 7y ago
After the crash, police obtained search warrants for Vasquez's cellphones as well as records from the video streaming services Netflix, YouTube, and Hulu. The investigation concluded that because the data showed she was streaming The V
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by keanzu 7y ago
Based on the evidence you have put forth your conclusion is logical and reasonable. You have convinced me that my statement was in error.
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by keanzu 7y ago
> An ordinary human driver would have seen Elaine & taken evasive action. Looks like this was a hard fail for the AI then. We can say with better than 90% certainty that a human would have saved the situation, probably would have s
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by keanzu 7y ago
> We'll see if Cadillac can deploy the feature more widely. "According to GM president Mark Reuss, the feature will be available as an option on 22 vehicles by 2023, with seven vehicles getting the feature next year and 12 more
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by keanzu 7y ago
"the nascent computerized braking technology was disabled the day of the crash" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Elaine_Herzberg
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by keanzu 7y ago
"Brad Templeton, who provided consulting for autonomous driving competitor Waymo, noted the car was equipped with advanced sensors, including radar and LiDAR, which would not have been affected by the darkness." https:/&#x2F
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by keanzu 7y ago
This is absolutely a fail, a woman died. The question is whether or not this incident is an example of "fails harder than most average drivers" or a hard fail. With the sensor array available to it the car should have done bette
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by keanzu 7y ago
It is a flying problem known as "The Children of Magenta" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ESJH1NLMLs
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by keanzu 7y ago
With a Tesla you hang a banana off the steering wheel. The weight tricks the system into thinking it is a hand. With GM's Super Cruise you can go completely hands free, that's the intended use, but it has eye tracking to make sure
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by keanzu 7y ago
> dead Uber pedestrian Elaine Herzberg was in dark clothing crossing a dark street well away from any crosswalk or street lighting. Would a human driver have performed better? From the footage I saw she was nearly invisible, I would have
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by keanzu 7y ago
Not sure but apparently they detect road works and are able to update the maps remotely.
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by keanzu 7y ago
> GM stays the same until you take it in to the shop... Over the air software upgrades are supported by GM. "When the work is done, an over the air software update will turn it back on." https://www.wired.com/st
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by keanzu 7y ago
They might be able to extrapolate from non fatal accidents because they care more about damage which costs money to repair than fatalities. But I take your point - a lot of miles need to be traveled before you'd want to build it into y
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by keanzu 7y ago
> Where does the faith in the tech and its future come from though? Well now that you've put me on the spot like that and I have to think about it: baseless I suppose. Just a general faith that technology always improves. > Would
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by keanzu 7y ago
It is an extra cost option. Don't specify it and it won't be enabled. The hardware and software are still present in the vehicle, just turned off. There's never been a Tesla incident, that I know of, where the system has tur
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by keanzu 7y ago
While I am not a pilot I have been on the flight deck of a 747. Can confirm that the pilots do not touch anything for hours at a time. IIRC they mostly checked the weather, fuel, engines, altitude and heading infrequently. The aircraft fl
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by keanzu 7y ago
US: For 2016 specifically, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) data shows 37,461 people were killed in 34,436 motor vehicle crashes, an average of 102 per day. According to the World Health Organization, road traffic inju
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by keanzu 7y ago
GM's Super Cruise does precisely this. It is only available on roads where GM allows it.
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by keanzu 7y ago
On a regulatory basis true self driving only needs to outperform humans. Humans are good at driving but imperfect we have a nasty tendency to get ourselves into accidents, both fatal and non. My thought was that the public would fear and re
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by keanzu 7y ago
How many Teslas on lane keep assist safely drove past that spot vs how many humans? If every million human drivers have one accident and every 1000 Teslas have a similar accident then yes, it is a vehicle safety problem. An auto driving sys
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by keanzu 7y ago
GM calls theirs Super Cruise which is true hands-free. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxeK0F-D3gg
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by keanzu 7y ago
I was trying to suggest that human are fallible - doctors, patients, police and policy makers all; however I used the word hoax way too much as both responses focus on that. I've reworded. Hopefully that addresses the issue? > the g
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by keanzu 7y ago
There's an 'overheated discussion detector' but as far as I know the precise mechanism isn't described. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16020089
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by keanzu 7y ago
> I’m not justifying them, actively supporting a corrupt system is a corrupt thing to do Ok, I'll justify them. There is almost no chance that anyone in the saga decided to do the evil thing because they wanted to watch the world bu
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by keanzu 7y ago
Fair enough. At that time, and we are talking going back 10 years now, did the government lack the will or the technical capability to carry out the large scale monitoring?
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by keanzu 7y ago
Snowden didn't follow the orders to the letter and then get punished. He wasn't a scapegoat for following a broad government policy which later became inconvenient/unpopular. He became an enemy of the state for opposing a gov

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