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Re:Tesla’s Push to Build a Self-Driving Car Sparks Dissent A... by revelation on Thursday August 24, 2017 @02:24PM (#15092640)
This isn't exactly an isolated incident, YouTube has lots of videos of autopilot steering wildly off course. The biggest problem is that Tesla allows turning on autopilot on roads that are not a highway and feature significant turns and hills obscuring "perfect lane vision", and the system is not prepared to handle that at all:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBaolsFyD9I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOnuKrzCLYc

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Re:Tesla’s Push to Build a Self-Driving Car Sparks Dissent A... by stevenwoo on Thursday August 24, 2017 @05:13PM (#15094118)
Wow, if I were a passenger in the second video, I would insist on taking over if a human were driving. I don't know anything about the technical issues, but this is so not ready for prime time, it seems from that test autopilot drive to be super amateurish.
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Re:Tesla’s Push to Build a Self-Driving Car Sparks Dissent A... by Sohcahtoa82 on Thursday August 24, 2017 @03:32PM (#15093270)
I'd like to point out that the first video you linked is nearly 2 years old.
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Re:Tesla’s Push to Build a Self-Driving Car Sparks Dissent A... by speakingmachine on Thursday August 24, 2017 @04:05PM (#15093578)
What's your point? The second video is only a month old and in that video the car still drives in the way only a total jackass would drive, in the most favorable possible conditions for a self-driving car: clear and sunny with little traffic, clear road markings, and no pedestrians or bicycles.
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Re:Tesla’s Push to Build a Self-Driving Car Sparks Dissent A... by revelation on Thursday August 24, 2017 @04:00PM (#15093520)
This is software released to the public which doesn't pass a basic d(yaw rate)/dt sanity check and steers hard into oncoming traffic.

Not sure who cares about version here. Your airplane went down? Yeah, should be fixed now, no worry, try the new version!

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Re:Tesla’s Push to Build a Self-Driving Car Sparks Dissent A... by jacquesm on Friday August 25, 2017 @12:28AM (#15096118)
That's absolutely terrible. If a police cruiser would be behind you while driving like that you'd have a hard time arguing you were in control of the vehicle and not being cited. Unacceptable.
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