Re:Another Tesla on autopilot steers towards a barrier
by dragonwriter on Friday April 06, 2018 @04:37PM
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> Tesla wants level 4 and claims the cars possess the hardware for that already.
You can't possibly determine what hardware is required for Level 4 until you have proven a hardware/software combination, so that's just empty puffery, but even if it was true...
> So you’d think their level II would still be smart enough to detect these problems to some degree.
No, because the smartness of their system is about the software. They could have hardware sufficient to support Level 4 autonomy and better-than-human AI running software that only supports a less-thsn-adequate version of Level 2 autonomy. What their hardware could support (even if it was knowable) gives you no basis for belief about what their current software on it supports, except that it won't exceed the limits set by the hardware.
You can't possibly determine what hardware is required for Level 4 until you have proven a hardware/software combination, so that's just empty puffery, but even if it was true...
> So you’d think their level II would still be smart enough to detect these problems to some degree.
No, because the smartness of their system is about the software. They could have hardware sufficient to support Level 4 autonomy and better-than-human AI running software that only supports a less-thsn-adequate version of Level 2 autonomy. What their hardware could support (even if it was knowable) gives you no basis for belief about what their current software on it supports, except that it won't exceed the limits set by the hardware.