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Re:Why Tesla's autopilot can't see a stopped firetruck by ajmurmann on Friday January 26, 2018 @09:49AM (#16239538)
If in the very least the autopilot could ring an alarm when it gives up. It seems like the autopilot in this case didn't know it had given up. The engineers had given up...
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Re:Why Tesla's autopilot can't see a stopped firetruck by nmeofthestate on Friday January 26, 2018 @09:59AM (#16239607)
According to the article, a stopped truck is in the same class of objects as an overhead sign, so a lot of false alarms would be going off if this wasn't also fixed.
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Re:Why Tesla's autopilot can't see a stopped firetruck by Someone1234 on Friday January 26, 2018 @10:26AM (#16239830)
Which is odd within itself, my Subaru which uses optical (visual) sensors can detect stationary vehicles fine even at highway speeds.

Does Tesla's system have no optical sensors?

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Re:Why Tesla's autopilot can't see a stopped firetruck by sli on Friday January 26, 2018 @11:17AM (#16240295)
It does have an alarm when it's about to avoid an obstacle (and it's actually a pretty cool noise, if you ask me), not sure why it wouldn't have one for this scenario as well.
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