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Tesla Whistleblower Says 'Autopilot' System Is Not Safe Enough To Be Used On Public Roads (jalopnik.com)

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[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (8 children)

I lost all trust in their 'Autopilot' the day I read Musk said (Paraphrasing) "All we need are cameras, there's no need for secondary/tertiary LIDAR or other expensive setups"

Like TFYM? No backups?? Or backups to the backups?? On a life fucking critical system?!

[–] lefaucet@slrpnk.net 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Bot to be a hard-on about it, but if the cameras hace any problem autopilot ejects gracefully and hands it over to the driver.

I aint no elon dicj rider, but I got FSD andd the radar would see manhole covers and freak the fuck out. It was annoying as hell and pissed my wife off. The optical depth estimation is now far more useful than the radar sensor.

Lidar has severe problems too. I've used it many times professionally for mapping spaces. Reflective surfaces fuck it up. It delivers bad data frequently.

Cameras will eventually be great! Really they already are, but they'll get orders of magnitude better. Yeah 4 years ago the ai failed to recognize a rectagle as a truck, but it aint done learning yet.

That driver really should have been paying attention. Thee car fucking tells you to all the time.

If a camera has a problem the whole system aborts.

In the future this will mean the car will pull over, but it''s, as it makes totally fucking clear, in beta. So for now it aborts and passes control to the human that is payong attention.

[–] chakan2@lemmy.world -1 points 11 months ago

ejects gracefully and hands it over to the driver.

Just in time to slam you into an emergency vehicle at 80...but hey...autopilot wasn't on during the impact, not Musk's fault.

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