Re:Another Tesla on autopilot steers towards a barrier
by thaumasiotes on Saturday April 07, 2018 @01:58PM
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Having your sensors fail doesn't mean they're not providing data. It means they're not providing accurate data. In humans, we would call this hallucinating, and humans in fact cannot generally tell that they are hallucinating.
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Re:Another Tesla on autopilot steers towards a barrier
by lisper on Saturday April 07, 2018 @02:08PM
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> Having your sensors fail doesn't mean they're not providing data.
That is one possible failure mode. But you're right, it's not the only one.
There is an extensive literature on how to detect and correct sensor errors resulting from all kinds of different failure modes.