China's Xiaomi To Remotely Fix Assisted Driving Flaw in 110,000 SU7 Cars (koreatimes.co.kr) 26
Chinese consumer tech giant Xiaomi will remotely fix a flaw in the assisted driving system on over 110,000 of its popular SU7 electric cars, the firm and regulators said Friday, months after a deadly crash involving the model. From a report: China's tech companies and automakers have poured billions of dollars into smart-driving technology, a new battleground in the country's cutthroat domestic car market. But Beijing has moved to tighten safety rules after a Xiaomi SU7 in assisted driving mode crashed and killed three college students this year. It also raised concerns over the advertising of cars as being capable of autonomous driving. On Friday, the State Administration for Market Regulation said Xiaomi's highway assisted driving system showed insufficient recognition, warning and handling ability in some extreme driving conditions.
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Then, just don't buy Chinese cars. Or, be ready to take responsibility for using a car with known safety problems.
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Tesla started doing it, now everyone is at it. At least with Xiaomi they don't change the behaviour of the system unless it's actually broken. It's not like Tesla were one week it does a stretch of road perfectly and lulls you into a false sense of security, then the next week it's broken and you die in a firey wreck.
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Murdercars (Score:3)
It isn't a great book - fairly disposable scifi that requires TV-style disbelief-suspension and eventually devolves into weird techno-utopianism. But has great bits of scene-setting mind candy that is frighteningly believable.
Like the fleets of robot cars used as weapons.
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I think the opposite. I think this is an example of why human drivers will be easily surpassed by automated systems. When a problem is fixed by a vendor they can roll out a fix that fixes everyone. We've been trying to fix human behaviour for a century and have failed at doing so.
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When a problem is fixed by a vendor they can roll out a fix that fixes everyone.
Or if the fix itself is flawed (CrowdStrike anyone ?) then the roll out screws everyone. Probably with catastrophic results.
Technology will not fix all the world's problems. I thought that kind of mindset died with Gene Rodenberry. Technology will never fix anything because it is created by humans, or AI, which is itself created by humans. It's unfixable humans all the way down.
A chain is never stronger than its weakest link, and you cannot take the human link out of the chain. There will always be incompet
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It's still a correctable behaviour. Human behaviour is not correctable. The biggest improvements we have made in road safety is through systems that take away the requirement for human skill.
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I think the opposite. I think this is an example of why human drivers will be easily surpassed by automated systems. When a problem is fixed by a vendor they can roll out a fix that fixes everyone. We've been trying to fix human behaviour for a century and have failed at doing so.
As long as the cars are using machine learning, there is never going to be a fix that actually fixes all of the instances of even a single problem. The whole idea of being able to have a conclusive fix in an "AI" system is nonsense.
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So far technology has been fixing things and making life a lot better for everyone. Before the year 2000, zero US presidents had ever live past age 92. Now it's 4 (Reagan, Ford, GHW Bush, Carter). You can't tell me that's not advances in medical technology. 200 years ago, it would take 3 days to get from Berlin to Munich. Now you can go from New York City to Beijing, China in less than a day .. and much safer than that trip from Berlin to Munich btw. Anyway, a lot of people died in the early days of aviatio
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So far technology has been fixing things and making life a lot better for everyone.
Moving the goalposts. Also, learn where the enter key is located. Once you do that I might consider reading your manifesto.
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Before the year 2000, zero US presidents had ever live past age 92. Now it's 4 (Reagan, Ford, GHW Bush, Carter). You can't tell me that's not advances in medical technology.
I'm genuinely curious, while you make a good underlying point for which there is plenty of data to back it, why on why would you pick an example profession that has such an insanely low sample size, and a profession known for its mortality too. Seriously dude, we have huge aggregated datasets showing how average across the population there are improvements. WTF would you use an example subset of 45 people to make your case.
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MAGA people don't trust statistics, you have to provide relatable anecdotal evidence. If MAGA idiots understood and trusted statistics we wouldn't have RFK as the head of HHS.
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Not sure how Gerald Ford's lifespan was relevant to anyone but Gerald Ford. You don't get the same doctors as Gerald Ford. For normal US citizens, life expectancy began declining years ago, and you're about to see it crater once they quit inspecting the food supply, amongst all the other things.
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As long as the cars are using machine learning, there is never going to be a fix that actually fixes all of the instances of even a single problem. The whole idea of being able to have a conclusive fix in an "AI" system is nonsense.
Cars aren't using machine learning. Learning is done elsewhere and a model is applied to the car. That model is equal across all cars where it's applied, no different from any other algorithm. Fix a problem in that model and you fix it equally in all cars.
they were going to be rebranded SU7 (Score:2)
One of the engineers pointed out that rebadging them to SU X for Xiaomi would definitely so not work for the Western market
Re: they were going to be rebranded SU7 (Score:2)
So? (Score:2)
At least they're fixing it (Score:2)
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The SU7 has long-range LIDAR. Teslers have no LIDAR. It's actually possible for Xiaomi to fix their cars, unlike Tesla.
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Perhaps Xiaomi can fix stuff but their cars are terrible at avoiding crashes - they just give up and hand over to the driver.
You mean like Teslas have done in incident after incident, including several where people have died?
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Sometimes it slams the brakes for a shadow, other times it runs headlong into the truck. Sometimes it even drives normally, but that doesn't give you a fun, spirited driving experience. For that, you need the unpredictability of AI.
Although, I have heard of "forward collision sensors" doing similar stuff. Not sure how much "AI" is involved there, but I have my own built-in ocular collision sensors that haven't failed me once, and I drive more miles than probably anyone whose job title isn't "driver".