People are arguing about autopilot being disabled during the drive, but even if it was, the emergency braking system should tried to do something.
Mark did an interview with Philip Defranco and posted raw footage showing/explaining that Autopilot turned itself off instead of hitting the brakes.
They also did two takes, it did the same thing both times. The first time, they just used a poster instead of a full foam wall. They decided to add the foam for a better visual once they realized it would just happily plow through it.
Finally there’s some argument of Autopilot vs FSD; but both rely on the same cameras and should have at least tried to brake. The LIDAR car braked and it was just using emergency braking, no self driving at all.
Why would it? It sees a road in front of itself, the whole car is built + programmed to go by what it sees, as an image.
The car is doing exactly what it is built to do. It just so happens that “safety of road traffic” is not among the things it is built for, and explicitly so.
I love that they had pre-cut the styrofoam wall in a cartoony hole shape because they knew it was going to happen.
With the visual there’s no way it would not have. It’s not hard to foresee.
They also didn’t need to put an actually wall behind the photo and destroy the Tesla, but why not?
How would the photo stand up without some kind of wall?
Looks like they have some kind of lines under tension, possibly staked into the ground. Could be done without a wall. But a wall would make it easier.
You know, with how distracted your average Tesla driver is, I’m pretty sure this would trick them even with them “driving” with AP on.
You mean without AP on?
I mean clearly it makes no difference but yeah, lol
ACME electric car.
Pyrotechnics included.
It’s weird, an optical sensor should fall for this, but LiDAR detects objects in 3D.
Teslas famously don’t use lidar because Musk declared that cameras were good enough. Reality disagrees, but reality owns no shares of Tesla.
Musk declared that cameras were good enough
And then disabled existing lidar sensors in teslas, so his team could just focus on camera vision only
He’s a dumbass
A decent camera only vision system should still be able to detect the wall. I was actually shocked at the fact that Tesla failed this test so egregiously.
If you use two side by side cameras you can determine distance to a feature by calculating the offset in position of the feature between the two camera images. I had always assumed this was how Tesla planned to achieve camera only FSD, but that would make too much sense.
https://www.intelrealsense.com/stereo-depth-vision-basics/
Even if they wanted to avoid any redundant hardware and only go with one camera for each direction, there is still a chance they could’ve avoided this kind of issue if they used structure through motion, but that’s much harder to do if the objects could be moving.
And people are pissy about it. Tesla sucks. Grow up
FSD was promised but never delivered because they need lidar for rain/snow/etc weather.
The FSD promise was mostly just market manipulation. Sure they might actually get it done at some point. But the time line they proposed was just a scam. And it worked seeing the market cap.
AP aside, worst car manufacturer.
I used to bullseye womp rats in my T-16 back home, they’re not much bigger than 2 meters.
I mean, I get the purpose of the test but I’m pretty sure a human would crash too.
The other self-driving car didn’t though
Humans with two working eyes can tell the difference between a flat painted surface and a 3D world. Humans with only one eye might crash, though.
I doubt someone without depth perception would crash either. They’d notice the straps on the side, and things not being the exact colour shade. Might think it was a big piece of glass set up on the road, but that wouldn’t be something you’d just plow through.
Not defending Tesla or anything but let’s not pretend like the majority of people on the road looking at their phone would not have done the exact same thing
Someone should make looking at your phone while driving illegal. Maybe even slap it with a catchy name like “distracted driving” and make the issue a whole big deal.
Maybe they should be a responsible driver and look at the road instead or better yet take public transit.
Would be nice, but i live in reality unfortunately
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