In case you were worried about the roads being too safe, you can rest easily knowing that Teslas will be rolling out with unsupervised “Full Self Driving” in a couple days.

It doesn’t seem to be going great, even in supervised mode. This one couldn’t safely drive down a simple, perfectly straight road in broad daylight :( Veered off the road for no good reason. Glad nobody got badly hurt.

We analyze the onboard camera footage, and try to figure out what went wrong. Turns out, a lot. We also talk through how camera-only autonomous cars work, Tesla’s upcoming autonomous taxi rollout, and how AI hallucinations figure into everything.

  • @[email protected]
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    101 month ago

    Here’s a link directly to the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frGoalySCns

    Now here’s a fun experiment: start from the beginning, and pause as soon as you think the car is about to do something dangerous. That’s your correction time - I was probably front wheels off the road before I paused.

    • KayLeadfootOP
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      31 month ago

      I was front wheels off the road by the time my reaction time hit the mouse button.

      And a mouse button is faster to activate than a steering wheel :,|

  • zeet
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    121 month ago

    “Tesla, return to origin.”

    "Researching my origin… … … Oh my God… " screech

  • @[email protected]
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    371 month ago

    Perhaps an “unauthorized modification” was made to the FSD stack. Maybe late at night. Possibly by a ketamine addict.

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    1 month ago

    Do you folks remember a DLC mission in watchdogs 2 ? Hmmmm…

  • Jack
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    51 month ago

    Someone has spoken against our glorious tech leader Elmo…

    • @[email protected]
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      51 month ago

      Aurora Innovation already has 20 trucks on a highway in Texas as a pilot program. Unlike Tesla’s design, they don’t rely on cameras and have LIDAR/RADAR all over the place.

      • KayLeadfootOP
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        31 month ago

        I’m actually research Aurora right now for another piece.

        Much better technical setup than Tesla. Tesla isn’t even trying to apply their consumer FSD tech to their semi product.

  • @[email protected]
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    341 month ago

    Flipping an EV is no small feat, especially a sedan. The damned center of gravity is basically at the middle of the wheels.

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    121 month ago

    Inb4 Elon tweets that this actually is a good thing, then tries to claim that the car will protect the driver from harm. Even though the car literally crashed itself 🫠

    • KayLeadfootOP
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      31 month ago

      “wow, ummmmmm–” stares off into space for 5 ketamine-soaked seconds “… The cyber-airbags worked better than designed.” - Elon

      $TSLA: Rises 420.69% after-hours

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    381 month ago

    Good thing it doesn’t have LIDAR sensors on the front, repair would be much more expensive

    Tap for spoiler

    /s

  • Sibbo
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    61 month ago

    Yeah well, machine learning for controlling cars works most of the time. Sometimes it doesn’t.

    • KayLeadfootOP
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      111 month ago

      That feels like a great reason to not apply machine learning to a problem.

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    Y’know… I would suggest a decent proof of FSD being worthless garbage is the fact you’d think a car which can drive itself should probably be able to automatically stop itself.

    Even when under manual control the car should be able to go “ah shit this aint the road anymore, those are some trees and a fence I’m headed towards way too fast” and try to stop and perform risk mitigating maneuvers.

    After that we can talk about whether the car might be able to drive itself.