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
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 risk profile that lets us do a lot of technically non-legal driving in various situations that we regard as fine. I watched the video and others like it, and I don't think the characterization of laughable is right. That's just name-calling. There is a ton of good tech involved in this, and lots of reason to be proud. But these vids serve as a reality check to Tesla's own promotions. And for me that reality shows we might in an AI-like, true self driving is just another 5 years off.
However I can see Teslas and others cherry-picking geographic areas that full self driving is 'allowed' as a first step. But any major city won't likely be a part of that. Too complex.
Finally, a real effort will need to be made on standardizing highway signage and painting, for SD to really work. zillions of dollars and people-hours of investment can be done away with by crappy center divider lines, weirdo bike lane placement, and other stuff. Road work will need to up its game for 21st century.
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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 risk profile that lets us do a lot of technically non-legal driving in various situations that we regard as fine. I watched the video and others like it, and I don't think the characterization of laughable is right. That's just name-calling. There is a ton of good tech involved in this, and lots of reason to be proud. But these vids serve as a reality check to Tesla's own promotions. And for me that reality shows we might in an AI-like, true self driving is just another 5 years off.
However I can see Teslas and others cherry-picking geographic areas that full self driving is 'allowed' as a first step. But any major city won't likely be a part of that. Too complex.
Finally, a real effort will need to be made on standardizing highway signage and painting, for SD to really work. zillions of dollars and people-hours of investment can be done away with by crappy center divider lines, weirdo bike lane placement, and other stuff. Road work will need to up its game for 21st century.