It was originally hosted http://this.deakin.edu.au/culture/car-wars though is no longer available there. https://web.archive.org/web/20170105065118/http://this.deaki... has it.
As much as the idea of full self driving is nice in theory, living in the northern midwest and having times in the winter where the traditional rules of driving go out the window when there's a question of "drive in the middle of what might be the road or find the ditch."
I'd like to see driver assist and some augmented reality for driving. Things like "driver's seat with bumps on the back to assist in awareness of 360° objects around the car". But self driving? I'm not sure I trust it yet or will for another decade or two. Developing software, I've seen how the sausage gets made - that doesn't inspire confidence.
I'm with you on the seeing the sausage made. I work in software development and algorithm research (though in a completely unrelated, but much better funded and cutting edge field) and the idea that we're anywhere close to truly level 3 autonomous driving, let alone 4 or 5, is laughable.
I love technology enhanced features, like radar cruise control, lane detection, etc. But only as extra sensory input for the driver, not replacement.
I consider myself bullish on this tech, and I have worked closely with autonomous robotics, but I didn't expect it this soon.
Twistiest, maybe. Most dangerous, not even close unless you or someone driving towards you do something dumb.
Historically Autopilot's weak spots have been crappy/ambiguous road markings, low speed corners on high speed roads, and large vehicles stopped on/across the road. This video hit none of those points. The lane markings are clear, the posted limit is low, and large vehicles aren't even supposed to be there.
It's just CGP Grey, not NHTSA. Hyperbole is to be expected.
I know he's a darling among the chattering tech class, but it's been several years since he jumped the shark from "insightful, carefully researched, and well thought out" to "just another vlogger doing and saying what is needed to get views."
1. I find it very unlikely that Tesla completely scrapped the previous system to start from scratch for the FSD beta. 2. If they had, that would make me even more suspicious of the new system because that would mean no one would understand its weaknesses yet.
Either way, being most interested in where the previous generation system and other semiautonomous systems have historically failed makes sense.
> it works amazing without markings on the road at all.
I have yet to see any videos of the new system handling poorly marked high speed roads one way or another, but the crash where it tried to veer in to oncoming traffic doesn't provide confidence. All the unmarked/poorly marked roads I've seen so far have been low speed residential/urban, and even there performance has been unpredictable at best. Let's see it on a highway where night time rain has made the markings hard to see. Let's see it when snow covers the road and your only hing or lane
The state of the art is such that it can simultaneously be amazing and terrifying to think that normal people are allowed to "test" it wherever they feel like trying on public roads. What it does with the limited inputs it has is incredible, but at the same time it has dangerous failure modes that do not seem to be predictable even to those who use the system regularly.
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Don't get me wrong, there is nothing I'd love more than never having to manually handle a traffic jam, or "go home car, I'm drunk", but the way this is being released will kill people.
We will not have fully autonomous vehicles in our street until we ban human driven vehicles and completely rework our infrastructure, aka probably not in our lifetime.
Look at that video, it's comically bad: https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/rgiu8m/the_fu...
- British Columbia Highway 5 (Coquihalla Highway) Daytime: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIF79ZlWcOI
- The Coquihalla Highway at night: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hM3BPOLVoUg
- Alberta Highway 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Re-Ap5fboi8
There were no obstacles that Teslas have had trouble with in the past, like stopped firetrucks, ending lanes, or people changing tires.