Re:Tesla FSD Beta almost causes a head-on collision [video]
by cmurf on Monday May 16, 2022 @02:15PM
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Humans have only two eyes but we're producing a much more complex spacially variable map as we're looking around, along with highly dynamic exposure. We're also very good at pattern recognition, filtering out noise, and anticipating that certain objects are more or less trustworthy: telephone poles, very trustworthy, they don't move; pedestrians, very untrustworthy, they move sideways and backwards.
I really don't think it's extreme to insist that a thing intended to replace humans, is at least as competent as humans. And a thing that can't even degrade itself, i.e. an "oh fuck I'm confused, abandon the turn in which I can't see, and keep going straight on the road I can see" is just a 100% fail. I'd go so far as to say anytime humans are intervening, that's a 100% fail, as in 0% trust should be extended. Such a system is acting capriciously. It really is all or nothing, just like the rules we apply to teenagers when they're learning to drive and get licensed.
Has anyone seen the recent video of the guy thinking there is a giant sink hole in a tunnel (and it really looks like it) until he drives more closely and it turns out to be a puddle[1]? If humans can't always get it right how is FSD going to get it right better than humans because it needs to be better otherwise what's the point?
[1] https://youtu.be/zSEABlXjB5o