Why Tesla's autopilot can't see a stopped firetruck

Re:Why Tesla's autopilot can't see a stopped firetruck by ghaff on Friday January 26, 2018 @10:29AM (#16239857)

No they're not or if they are it's with lots of caveats and limitations. In fact, Volvo, which has been one of the more aggressive companies in this space, has apparently moved back their plans. [1] I'm actually willing to believe that this space will develop faster than it looked a few years back. I note that one of the more skeptical AI researchers working on this, John Leonard, is taking a sabbatical from MIT to work on Toyota's self-driving initiative. But quicker to market is still probably at least 10-20 years. Perhaps just not "not in my lifetime" as Leonard said a few years back.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/14/16776466/volvo-drive-me-...

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Re:Why Tesla's autopilot can't see a stopped firetruck by razorunreal on Friday January 26, 2018 @01:42PM (#16241721)

I think it will go much faster than people realise, because the big blocker to infrastructure changes that make self driving easier is the fact that there are no self driving cars. Once they have a foothold somewhere, with caveats and limitations, it's much easier to convince the neighboring city that with "only a few updates to these intersections" or "just a couple of beacons" or whatever, they can have self driving taxis too.

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