Re:Tesla's self driving algorithm's overlay [video]
by Traster on Monday February 03, 2020 @03:33PM
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One of the real challenges of these systems is that even a very good system only needs to lose confidence in some object for a very short period of time for the system to lose confidence in its navigation and return control to the user. The easy way to get around that issue is to categorize objects and then just ignore them out of the context you expect them to appear in -- which is how Tesla managed to kill a pedestrian walking their bicycle across the road.
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Re:Tesla's self driving algorithm's overlay [video]
by IceSentry on Monday February 03, 2020 @03:48PM
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That event was done by Uber and if the human backup driver was paying attention, as they were supposed to because it was a test run, it wouldn't have happen. Yes the software was at fault of doing what you are saying, but the incident was a test run and the driver should have caught it and report to the engineer, not play on their phone and not pay attention.
Re:Tesla's self driving algorithm's overlay [video]
by Traster on Monday February 03, 2020 @04:06PM
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Arguing that it happened because the human back up wasn't paying attention isn't a great defense of an autonomous vehicle. The issue isn't that the bug happened, the issue is that that particular bug only comes from doing something fundamentally bad - hardcoding the situation.