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Re:Another Tesla on autopilot steers towards a barrier by ams6110 on Friday April 06, 2018 @11:35AM (#16774015)
Counterpoint, my Lenovo tablet running google maps often seems to get confused about lanes. E.g. it will think I'm taking an exit ramp when I am still on the main road. Once the ramp and the road diverge enough it will recover, but not before going into it's "rerouting" mode and sometimes even starting directions to get back on the road I'm already on.
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Re:Another Tesla on autopilot steers towards a barrier by jacquesm on Friday April 06, 2018 @11:46AM (#16774127)
That sounds pretty bad if that's the thing you rely on to get you where you're going. Here in NL interchanges are often complex enough that without the navigator picking the right lane you'd end up taking the wrong exit.

I don't use Google maps for driving but I know plenty of people that do and having been in the car with them on occasion has made me even happier with my dedicated navigation system. The voice prompts are super confusing with a lot of irrelevant information (and usually totally mis-pronounced) and now you are supplying even more data points that the actual navigation itself isn't as good as it could be.

I suspect this is a by-product of doing a lot of stuff rather than just doing one thing and doing that well.

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Re:Another Tesla on autopilot steers towards a barrier by rayiner on Friday April 06, 2018 @12:01PM (#16774262)
Here in D.C. Google maps will regularly get confused about whether you're on the main road or a ramp; whether you're on an overhead highway or the street underneath it, whether you're on a main road or the access road next to it.
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Re:Another Tesla on autopilot steers towards a barrier by reaperducer on Friday April 06, 2018 @03:53PM (#16776793)
My FIATChrysler Uconnect system will sometimes think I'm on the road above when driving under a bridge.

Sometimes it'll shout "The speed limit is 35 miles an hour!" when I go under a bridge carrying a 35MPH road, even though the road I'm on has a limit of 65.

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