> Person gets out and let's car park itself
But seriously the tech is very impressive. The journey was rather simple though, and didn't cover more difficult areas (inner city driving, heavy stop start traffic, roadblocks, road accidents and so on). I hope that Tesla test these things thoroughly because they've already got one death under their belt, it won't take many more to put people off completely.
Many people are starting to realize that's the real test, especially those likely to be model S/≡/X customers.
Real consumer and public education on the nature of the problem is necessary though, especially if we want a safer self driving world.
Because of our incredible image processing ability we can deal with a lot of shit that we may come across while driving. But the computer still has a lot of catching up to do in this department. Do you really want your life to end because an AI can't distinguish between a white lorry in the way and an empty road? It is an unnerving choice to have to make I think.
Yeah this. Every demo I've seen is some suburban or sparsely populated area. As a Chicago inner city driver, I really want to see these things handle our rush hour, especially in the snow and rain before I start calling this stuff the future. Its a good start, but I imagine the 'hard' problems with automated driving haven't been solved yet. If they were then these demos wouldn't be in great weather on sunny days and in low traffic.
City driving, roadblocks, accidents, and other unusual circumstances definitely deserve to be called more difficult, though.