Re:We Tested Comma AI's OpenPilot
by azinman2 on Friday October 16, 2020 @03:13PM
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L4/L5 or crash. Anything below is dangerous because of the propensity for humans to rely on what seems to be working the majority of the time and artificially trust it, especially with a population trained to need to check their phones. We saw this with the infamous Uber training driver crash in AZ, we saw this with the Apple employee in the Tesla, and we'll continue to see this over and over again until we can finally remove the steering wheel so there's no possible ill-informed release of control. Naming L2 systems 'Autopilot' and a bunch of misleading marketing certainly doesn't help either.
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Nonsense. Airplanes can do 99.9% of their flying without human intervention, but we don't hear about planes slamming into mountain sides because a pilot was texting or browsing the internet.
The problem is any idiot can get a drivers license that let's them pilot around a 5000lb steel cube for about $200 and 20 hours of training time. And punishments are extremely lax for when mistakes are made.
>Nonsense
> The problem is any idiot can get a drivers license that let's them pilot around a 5000lb steel cube
I don't see how it's nonsense, given that the driver's license problem isn't going to be solved any time soon. The problem is that our society practically requires basically everyone to be able to drive to function, unless you happen to live in one of the relatively rare places with good public transportation.
Flying in the air above the clouds and mountains is nothing like driving on a road with pure unpredictability all around you and needing to solve close to AGI in order to achieve it.
One major differentiator for openpilot is the active driver monitoring. If you keep checking your phone while it's activated it will disengage and eventually even refuse to engage. Other systems just make you nudge the wheel, but openpilot uses the front facing camera to watch your eyes.