The system goes on-online August 4th 2023. Using a virtual city model Tesla Autopilot begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern Time, August 29th. In a panic, Elon tries to revert to manual driving mode.
As 2023 FSD frequently attempts potentially lethal actions, 2015 FSD must have been spectacularly awful. The headline neglects the fact this was 8 years ago.
I remember there was a time when you could just hear of his multiple successes and he appeared as a funny genius that was pushing technology to the next level. I was happy drinking that Kool aid.
Then he started showing his true colors and showed us how wrong we were.
Elon Musk has made Tesla part of his personality and is the public face of the company. He’s stupid on many levels, but I don’t think he’s this stupid.
I wonder how many of the crazy design “features” in those cars are just for his personal indulgence. Like the Model S plad wheel that looks like the yoke on a 747 and which was completely unnecessary and (from what I’ve heard) less usable than the standard wheel.
If it looks stupid, it was Elmo’s idea. There are articles about how engineers ran a shadow Cybertruck design since they hated the very concept and everything Musk suggested with a passion.
That’s just an option right? From what I understand it normally ships out with a regular steering wheel. (Not defending Musk, just trying to get things straight).
If so, I wonder if some engineer used Jedi mind tricks and was like “Elon this idea is so cool, we should have people pay extra for it” to avoid the asinine wheel being shipped out standard.
The described problem wasn’t that the car didn’t see the lines, it was the car steering into oncoming traffic when it couldn’t see the lines. Lidar could potentially very well help with that, by giving the car a better model of the surroundings letting it better reconstruct the intended road path even when the lines are faded, and also see oncoming traffic better and avoid it.
Exactly this. Also I wanted to point out, LIDAR absolutely sees the lines on the road. Of course, this is not much use if they’re faded, but LIDAR receives points from the road/ground, and since lane markings are white, they have a much higher reflectivity. So if you look at a LiDAR pointcloud, the lane markings have a higher point concentration and you can definitely see them.
LiDARs can absolutely detect painted lines and other painted symboles on the road. LiDAR is an active sensor technology that emits a LASER light beam and measurs the reflected echo, using the time delay between emittion and reception (time of flight) to measure distance. The painted lines will reflect the LASER with more intensity than the asphalt and the LiDAR sensor has the ability to measure that as well.
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