In case you were worried about the roads being too safe, you can rest easily knowing that Teslas will be rolling out with unsupervised “Full Self Driving” in a couple days.

It doesn’t seem to be going great, even in supervised mode. This one couldn’t safely drive down a simple, perfectly straight road in broad daylight :( Veered off the road for no good reason. Glad nobody got badly hurt.

We analyze the onboard camera footage, and try to figure out what went wrong. Turns out, a lot. We also talk through how camera-only autonomous cars work, Tesla’s upcoming autonomous taxi rollout, and how AI hallucinations figure into everything.

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    7 months ago

    Good thing it doesn’t have LIDAR sensors on the front, repair would be much more expensive

    Tap for spoiler

    /s

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    7 months ago

    Flipping an EV is no small feat, especially a sedan. The damned center of gravity is basically at the middle of the wheels.

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    7 months ago

    “Tesla, return to origin.”

    "Researching my origin… … … Oh my God… " screech

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    Inb4 Elon tweets that this actually is a good thing, then tries to claim that the car will protect the driver from harm. Even though the car literally crashed itself 🫠

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      7 months ago

      “wow, ummmmmm–” stares off into space for 5 ketamine-soaked seconds “… The cyber-airbags worked better than designed.” - Elon

      $TSLA: Rises 420.69% after-hours

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    7 months ago

    Here’s a link directly to the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frGoalySCns

    Now here’s a fun experiment: start from the beginning, and pause as soon as you think the car is about to do something dangerous. That’s your correction time - I was probably front wheels off the road before I paused.

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      I was front wheels off the road by the time my reaction time hit the mouse button.

      And a mouse button is faster to activate than a steering wheel :,|

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    7 months ago

    Yeah well, machine learning for controlling cars works most of the time. Sometimes it doesn’t.

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      7 months ago

      Aurora Innovation already has 20 trucks on a highway in Texas as a pilot program. Unlike Tesla’s design, they don’t rely on cameras and have LIDAR/RADAR all over the place.

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        I’m actually research Aurora right now for another piece.

        Much better technical setup than Tesla. Tesla isn’t even trying to apply their consumer FSD tech to their semi product.

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    7 months ago

    Do you folks remember a DLC mission in watchdogs 2 ? Hmmmm…