Elon Musk May Have Made a Huge Mistake on Full Self-Driving That It's Too Late to Correct
futurism.com
Tesla is yet again in hot water with regulators over its decision to rely exclusively on cameras for its "Full Self-Driving" feature.

"While Waymo is now providing over 150,000 autonomous rides every week, Tesla still has a long way to go until its controversial “Full Self-Driving” software is ready for the EV maker’s competing robotaxi service.

Just this week, a Tesla driver plowed through a deer without even a hint of slowing down with the $8,000 add-on feature turned on, and another smashed into someone else’s car when its owner employed its Summon feature."…

  • @SlopppyEngineerEnglish
    17•2 months ago

    And then the car mistook the side of a white semi for the sky and plowed full speed into the semi, decapitating the driver. These systems see, but don’t really understand what they see.

    • @[email protected]English
      -9•2 months ago

      Self driving doesn’t need to be perfect it only needs to be better than humans.

      Examples like this are kind of pointless because humans are incredibly bad drivers statistically.

      • @jumjummyEnglish
        15•2 months ago

        It needs to be quite a bit better than humans to actually take off. The difference between a person driving and anything else is who is in control, and therefore to blame. Just being statistically better than the average person isn’t good enough, imho.

        • @SlopppyEngineerEnglish
          8•2 months ago

          An order of magnitude better would give trust. Slightly better doesn´t convince people.

        • @[email protected]English
          -2•2 months ago

          I still think the technology would be getting pushed forward even if it was only slightly better than humans. However it is far safer than humans which is why its growing rapidly in application.

          • @CookieOfFortuneEnglish
            4•2 months ago

            However humans may also be getting better via self driving tools such as radar cruise control. So you’d need to compare to a human with access to these tools.

            • @[email protected]English
              2•2 months ago

              Thats a good point. I cant wait for that stuff to become more widely available so we can see how that impacts things.

      • @[email protected]English
        7•2 months ago

        Human eyes are far better than cameras at real time adaptation to varied lighting conditions though.

        • @[email protected]English
          1•2 months ago

          And we can predict what will happen pretty well and adapt to the situation dynamically. Our only weakness is that we do stupid shit like drunk driving, speeding and not paying attention.

      • Echo DotEnglish
        1•2 months ago

        I’m pretty sure we’re a human would not have made that mistake though so it’s already not better than humans.