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Re:Four hundred miles with Tesla’s autopilot forced me to tr... by SEJeff on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @11:20PM (#11775123)
Hmmmm highway conditions vs 25Mph, the top speed of Google's self driving cars. The Tesla Autopilot is a lot more impressive as it goes a lot faster than 25Mph.
Re:Four hundred miles with Tesla’s autopilot forced me to tr... by taf2 on Thursday May 26, 2016 @12:03AM (#11775308)
It's also really good at 25Mph - when the roads are not busy in my area I take it out and drive slower and on curvy roads that might be normally 35-40 I slow down autopilot to say 25 and it's really good. At speed there are still a few turns it misses. A year ago at speed it couldn't do even half of what it can do at speed today. So it's also improving with every update
Re:Four hundred miles with Tesla’s autopilot forced me to tr... by eru on Thursday May 26, 2016 @02:28AM (#11775999)
Google went for a 25 mph top speed for regulatory reasons (the car is basically classified as a golf cart that way), not for technological reasons.
Re:Four hundred miles with Tesla’s autopilot forced me to tr... by jsolson on Thursday May 26, 2016 @01:44AM (#11775800)
I would be absolutely fucking terrified to engage autopilot at all in Mountain View, let alone at 25mph.

It's a great feature, but it's a great feature for boring driving.

Re:Four hundred miles with Tesla’s autopilot forced me to tr... by jinst8gmi on Thursday May 26, 2016 @06:21AM (#11776856)
> it's a great feature for boring driving

I'd much rather have a "boring" driver on the road than deal with aggressive drivers.

Re:Four hundred miles with Tesla’s autopilot forced me to tr... by jsolson on Sunday May 29, 2016 @04:06PM (#11797978)
Agreed. My point was that it doesn't deal well with "exciting" driving. Given a long stretch of mostly empty interstate highway Autopilot is great (and keeps it suitably boring/low stress). It does miserably in suburban areas (let alone urban areas).