Re:Another Tesla on autopilot steers towards a barrier
by guidedlight on Friday April 06, 2018 @07:59PM
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My understanding is that auto-braking during autonomous driving doesn’t normally react to stationary objects like barriers. Otherwise it would brake for things like cardboard boxes, plastic bags, and other debris that often makes its way onto the road. But rather, autonomous driving AI puts a lot of trust into its lane guidance.
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Re:Another Tesla on autopilot steers towards a barrier
by sjwright on Saturday April 07, 2018 @01:12AM
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In what world would you not want your car to brake for a cardboard box? You don’t know what is inside. It could be empty, or could be full of nails. Or a cat.
Regardless, it should be trivial have a different behavior for a moving object that enters the road versus a rigid object that has not been observed moving.
Re:Another Tesla on autopilot steers towards a barrier
by userbinator on Saturday April 07, 2018 @01:50AM
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Sometimes it's just a piece of paper or something similarly harmless that happens to be positioned on the road in such a way that it appears to be an obstacle.
Re:Another Tesla on autopilot steers towards a barrier
by sjwright on Saturday April 07, 2018 @02:25AM
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If a system can't reliably differentiate between a flat object lying on the road, an object fluttering rapidly in the air, and a stationary object that is protruding from the road, it has no right to be in control of a car.