What I got out of the video was that Oakland drivers suck and computers many never fully mimic a human driver responsibly. Yea it made mistakes, but so did all the human drivers as well. Honking for waiting more than 500ms? Double parking everywhere?
Driving in a city requires driving like an asshole sometimes (making aggressive turns, taking chances, speeding, etc...). I struggle to see how self-driving would ever work in a place like Boston where lines mean nothing and signals are suggestions. Tesla is going to have to introduce an "asshole" mode for places like this.
I'm also really surprised that it doesn't use map data to figure out lanes. It seems to do everything off of sight. One important human driver "feature" is the ability to know when to change lanes ahead of time based on previous experiences. Relying on sight alone means at best your self-driving mode will be as good as a tourist unfamiliar with an area.
Cadillac Northstar engines used about 7.5 quarts of oil instead of 5 not because they needed it normally, but as a reserve to keep the level up to 5 when banking.
Tesla could take a cue form this and have an upgrade option for an extra fluid reserve and software to spray demon honkers.
And for a little bit more, to spray folks to busy texting to notice the light has changed . . .:)
This is my thought as well. I don't own any TSLA, not in the market for a car, but would really, really like self driving to come to fruition. But I have seen a lot of the practice cars around, whether Tesla, Cruise, Waymo, Uber, etc. and they all get hung up at relatively trivial situations for humans that are complex in theory.
Four way stops were drivers are going out of turn, or trying to wave people through. Double parked delivery trucks, clueless pedestrians and the real fact that most of us have a
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>Honking for waiting more than 500ms?
Cadillac Northstar engines used about 7.5 quarts of oil instead of 5 not because they needed it normally, but as a reserve to keep the level up to 5 when banking.
Tesla could take a cue form this and have an upgrade option for an extra fluid reserve and software to spray demon honkers.
And for a little bit more, to spray folks to busy texting to notice the light has changed . . . :)
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This is my thought as well. I don't own any TSLA, not in the market for a car, but would really, really like self driving to come to fruition. But I have seen a lot of the practice cars around, whether Tesla, Cruise, Waymo, Uber, etc. and they all get hung up at relatively trivial situations for humans that are complex in theory.
Four way stops were drivers are going out of turn, or trying to wave people through. Double parked delivery trucks, clueless pedestrians and the real fact that most of us have a
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