Re:Tesla Continues to Walk Back Full Self-Driving Claims
by Animats on Sunday May 02, 2021 @07:22PM
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FSD in certain parking lots.
That's what I was originally thinking of as the minimum viable product in my DARPA Grand Challenge days. Mostly for rental cars at airports. If you'd booked a rental car, one would arrive at the terminal ready for use, and you'd get in and drive away manually. For airport departure, you'd leave the vehicle at the terminal, and it would slowly drive itself back to the rental lot.
No need to go faster than 20 MPH, and you could put markers and sensors in the roads if necessary.
There's been too little done with slow-speed automatic driving. Google made their little bubble car, but dropped that product. There are some fully automated shuttle buses, but that's a tiny business. About 25 companies are in that business, but other than Baidu, few have any deployments beyond test scale.
That's what I was originally thinking of as the minimum viable product in my DARPA Grand Challenge days. Mostly for rental cars at airports. If you'd booked a rental car, one would arrive at the terminal ready for use, and you'd get in and drive away manually. For airport departure, you'd leave the vehicle at the terminal, and it would slowly drive itself back to the rental lot.
No need to go faster than 20 MPH, and you could put markers and sensors in the roads if necessary.
There's been too little done with slow-speed automatic driving. Google made their little bubble car, but dropped that product. There are some fully automated shuttle buses, but that's a tiny business. About 25 companies are in that business, but other than Baidu, few have any deployments beyond test scale.