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Re:Another Tesla on autopilot steers towards a barrier by sjwright on Saturday April 07, 2018 @01:12AM (#16779475)
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.

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Re:Another Tesla on autopilot steers towards a barrier by userbinator on Saturday April 07, 2018 @01:50AM (#16779557)
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.
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Re:Another Tesla on autopilot steers towards a barrier by sjwright on Saturday April 07, 2018 @02:25AM (#16779640)
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.
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