Re:Tesla has a self-driving strategy other companies abandon...
by eclipxe on Friday March 08, 2019 @07:05PM
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Your wife's Acura does not steer itself the same way a Tesla steers itself. Your wife's Acura will try to keep the car from exiting a lane.
Re:Tesla has a self-driving strategy other companies abandon...
by kalleboo on Friday March 08, 2019 @09:41PM
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I had the same experience with Subaru's EyeSight system. I drive very rarely (you can count the number of times I drive in a year on one hand) so after a day of driving I'm usually completely beat. But after a day of highway driving with the EyeSight lane keeping/adaptive cruise control I was remarkably less fatigued.
Re:Tesla has a self-driving strategy other companies abandon...
by zaroth on Friday March 08, 2019 @05:24PM
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Are you taking about LKAS? [1]
Not trying to be rude, but that is nothing at all like driving with AutoPilot.
Re:Tesla has a self-driving strategy other companies abandon...
by mbreese on Friday March 08, 2019 @11:13PM
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You’re not being rude. It is the lane keep assist, and it is nothing like Tesla’s autopilot. But that was the point I was trying to make. It’s a very good, but limited, drivers aid. But because it’s likited, it won’t make (or rather let) you get complacent. This was the gist of the original article — the Tesla autopilot system is very risky when the system needs to hand over to the driver. The driver is likely to trust the system too much and therefore let down their guard and lose key context that is needed when the autopilot sees something that it can’t cope with. In those situations, a more limited system is likely safer because the driver is forced to be more engaged throughout the trip.
It’s significantly nicer to drive long stretches with this system, but I can’t imagine doing it without your hands on the wheel. When the sensors fail (weather or poor lane markings), you need to be able to take over immediately. Granting too much autonomy to the system is just too risky (and the point of the article).