Is any of this shocking or contrary to what's already been said in public? You could summarize the whole article like this:
Tesla intends on building a great L2 system, releasing it publicly, and then moving on to L3 afterwards.
Tesla intends on building a great L2 system, releasing it publicly, and then moving on to L3 afterwards.
That being said I agree with the spirit of your comment.
Whether that's a mistake depends on how long that amount of time it.
For example, 10 seconds is perfectly safe. It's fine to completely ignore the road until you hear the beep, because 10 seconds is plenty of time to look around and figure out the situation and take control.
I would argue that any system that requires constant human concentration is not actually level 3.
Level 2 is the one that's dangerous by design.
Edit: Though since the main difference between level 3 and level 4 is the ability to pull over, I wouldn't be surprised if level 3 gets quickly left behind or skipped entirely by many developers.
- You're deep into you Netflix movie
- +2 seconds. Oh wait, there's an alarm going off. WTF?
- +4 seconds. You've acquired some level of visual awareness of the environment but still don't know what's really going on.
- etc.
You were in a deep sleep? Maybe need a good minute and some indication of why the system has disengaged.
But even in your scenario, if you hit vague awareness of the environment at 4 seconds, and you know you're taking over to drive... that 6 more seconds is more than enough to reach full environmental awareness.
> You were in a deep sleep?
You're not supposed to sleep for level 3. And "don't sleep" is not some ridiculous requirement. It doesn't even compare to the "be constantly vigilant" rule of level 2.
It's one thing or the other. You're being fairly vigilant and looking ahead and ready to take control or you're a passenger.
> Full self-driving to me means that I can act as if there's an Uber driver at the controls. As far as I'm concerned, it's either that or I'm paying full attention even if I'm not fully controlling the vehicle.
> It's one thing or the other. You're being fairly vigilant and looking ahead and ready to take control or you're a passenger.
It's the latter option.
In level 3 there's an Uber driver but they might have you take over at some point. You're not in control at all, a passenger until the car tells you otherwise. You don't have to have any vigilance or looking ahead, you just have to be awake.
If you need 10 seconds to react whatever was going to happen has already happened anyway.