Autonomous Vehicles

I'd like to get a deeper understanding of what actually happens from the moment your forward cameras (can) "see" that your lane lines start to curve ahead of you, until your steering wheel physically starts to turn, keeping you centered inside the lane. Both software and hardware-wise. My...

Face-tracking technology will be used in the Model 3 to monitor driver alertness, in my opinion. Its use explains both the purpose of the rear-facing camera and a cryptic statement in a press release about the technology from last May. "... Seeing Machines, a company listed on the London Stock...

I've now had two instances highlighting the same weakness of current AP 2.0 technology that I would like to share. I use autopilot with a following distance of 6 or 7, which usually gives enough space for vehicles to change lanes in front of me and for autopilot to adjust to the new car. In...

Deploying Autonomous Vehicles Before They're Perfect Will Save More Lives

I recently got a MX (8/2017 build date). I only have around 1k miles on the car but took it for a road trip from the bay area to southern california to play with the car and get familiar with the features, etc. I tried autopilot a lot and found that it's great on the freeway in bumper to...

My new article: New Research May Vindicate Tesla's Choice To Forego LIDAR. Summary: New research finds that a self-driving car can use cameras to determine distances to within 10 centimeters (3.9 inches) of accuracy. 10 cm of accuracy is most likely sufficient for self driving, making LIDAR...

Most people have assumed that Tesla will use some deep convolutional nets for Tesla Vision, but not for end-to-end actual control of the car. Indeed it can be seen as dangerous. However the lead of Tesla's AI division, Andrej Karpathy, recently wrote this blog post. An interesting take on the...

This idea that there are thousands of Teslas driving around continuously mapping every nook and cranny of our cities got me thinking about what can be done with that dataset. We'll very quickly have a reliable VR map of Philadelphia, is there not a way to integrate that into the everyday world...

I just noticed that in the 2016 M3 reveal, the M3 chassis already has holes for the AP2 cameras in the B pillars. In hindsight this makes perfect sense, as (IMO) Elon referred to AP2 (EAP/FSD) as the spaceship feature in reveal pt 2. It's interesting that the M3 prototypes at the reveal didn't...

I was completely blown away by a post over at reddit yesterday. A guy called PM_YOUR_NIPS_PAPER - who says he is / was training Tesla's computer vision network - claimed: I don't know if this guy's for real or not. Nevertheless, I find what he's saying a bit scary. Could it be true? What...

Since all new Tesla's contain the hardware for self driving - why doesn't Tesla treat EAP/FSD as software? For instance, wouldn't it be much better if Tesla tied EAP/FSD with the owner instead of the car? What if I can go to MyTesla and purchase EAP/FSD and tie the license to my car, when I...

Moving to a location that won't have the ability to install a home charger My loss is your gain. Best car I have ever owned. Located in Boston, MA area AWD One Owner Clean CarFax smoke-free Late 2016 build with the new front end design Red Multi-coat Paint sunroof 21" grey turbine wheels Tan...

So while we are waiting for HW2+ maps to actually materialize, here's something to ponder. Many of you have noticed already that the car seems to slow down in TACC and autosteer mode before curves. So I was researching how is speed limit determined (some people I asked were sure it was from...

Oops. Self-driving shuttle crashes in Las Vegas hours after launch

Hey everyone. How do you tell what version you have on your car? I am having a hard time finding out where/how to find it.

Tesla’s Dangerous Sprint Into the Future Didn't see this already posted.

If self-driving cars are deployed in 2020 when they are twice as safe as human drivers, improving year over year until they become 10x as safe in 2024, and reach 100% adoption by 2040, 1.3 million lives will be saved in the U.S. over 50 years. On the other hand, if self-driving cars are...

Waymo, the autonomous vehicle division of Alphabet, Google’s parent company, says it has been operating a fleet of autonomous vehicles in Arizona without a human behind the wheel since mid-October. Soon, the company plans to invite regular people for rides in these fully self-driving...

I figured (Google/Waymo) deserves its own thread because they actually so far ahead and the only ones with actual self driving cars although cruise is right in their rear view mirror. Waymo is first to put fully self-driving cars on US roads without a safety driver Waymo now testing its...

Title: A New Way to Find Bugs in Self-Driving AI Could Save Lives A New Way to Find Bugs in Self-Driving AI Could Save Lives Most software bugs won’t kill you. A possibly lethal exception could be the error that leads a self-driving car’s AI to make the wrong decision at the wrong time. That is...

Former General Motors executive Bob Lutz has written an article for Automotive News that stresses that the end of the automotive era is near. Soon “it will be the well-to-do, to the amazement of all their friends, who still know how to drive.” In fact, Lutz boldly predicts that the...

Not to take anything away from my all-time favorite threads (this and this one)... But I think we need a thread dedicated exclusively to artificial neural networks, ML, CV and whatnot. Because I'm pretty sure most of us only have an 'average' (at best) understanding of what NN really is - how...

So I was wondering around Ginza the other day and walked into the Nissan Building and wow, I didn't know the 2018 Nissan Leaf redesign was out! I know comparing the Leaf to Model 3 is like, comparing an apple with uh... cantaloupe, but... The styling was not bad (compared to the previous...

Painting crossing zebras as realistic 3d objects. (or.... is it a conspiracy by the LIDARati ?) Town in Iceland Paints 3D Zebra Crosswalk To Slow Down Speeding Cars

Hi All - I am putting up my Model S 75D for a lease takeover. It's a 2016 model, leased on Dec 31, 2016. Features are as follows: - Dual Motor / All-Wheel Drive - Solid Black Paint - Sunroof - 19" Silver Slipstream Wheels - Multi-Pattern Black Seats - Dark Ash Wood Décor - Integrated Center...

Hi all, I am working on a problem, probably on the similar level of complexity as in autonomous cars but in a completely different industry. Nobody has tried to apply ML to this problem, although it seems that if people can apply to autonomous vehicles which have a lot more number of variables...

I wanted to start a thread for the nerds out there with philosophical tendencies. This article shares some thoughts: what are yours as someone who actually drives a Tesla? Stanford professors discuss ethics involving driverless cars | Stanford News

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said again Wednesday that he believes the automaker’s current hardware for its Autopilot system is sufficient for achieving full autonomy. Still, he teased that there will be “more on the hardware front soon.” In a letter to shareholders, Tesla said Autopilot will soon...

Paging the experts such as @verygreen and that other guy on the 2.5 thread. What are your thoughts/guesses as to whether Tesla has been internally working on FSD "driving policy" or "traffic logic" for the last year and if so - how? I'm curious about what methods will / would work: 1 - Pure...

One source says it’s a u-blox NEO-M8L, but I’m looking for confirmation on that.

Jianxiong Xiao, the founder and CEO of the autonomous driving startup AutoX, has some harsh words on lidar:

People on this forum have been generous enough to share their research on the technical aspects of self-driving with me. I thought I’d share this article I wrote, which presents my research on the economics of self-driving. I put way more hours into writing this article than I will ever be paid...

I have one very curvy local “test road”. It features several switchbacks and an abrupt very sharp turn at the end. 4 months ago, AP(2) couldn’t handle it coming or going. It would wildly (and dangerously) cross over (not a few inches...more like a few feet) into the opposite lane. And the sharp...

Hi guys, Today I did another test run on my usual "test track" to see what improvements there are in autopilot with the latest update 2014.42. Turns out some improvements are definitely there, but still some problematic areas as well. But compared to the last time I did this run (like 2 updates...

I live in San Diego and there are two places miles away and the other is 535. I was thinking that with autopilot on these roads that are most highway, I could go to sleep for a few hours while traveling. One would require a stop. Is it possible to nap or completely zone out with autopilot?

I’m super excited by this recent paper: “3D Visual Perception for Self-Driving Cars using a Multi-Camera System: Calibration, Mapping, Localization, and Obstacle Detection”. The authors used a four-camera system — similar to the eight-camera system in Harware 2 Teslas — to determine the...

Hi SnappyCam was absolutely groundbreaking, and he developed "HEIF" and LivePhotos while being at Apple which will play a major factor in the future. He could be the solution for dealing the sheer data mass: John Papandriopoulos - Silicon Valley star | Melbourne Alumni eNews

This month’s C & D has an interesting section on self driving cars. Some heavy thinkers contributed to a very thorough discussion.

Delphi Automotive announced today that it will acquire autonomous vehicle technology company nuTonomy Inc. for $450 million. By combining efforts with nuTonomy in Boston, Singapore, and other pilot cities around the world, Delphi will have 60 autonomous cars on the road across three...

I see some of the points being made here: maps save compute time; FSD isn’t here yet. But I’m not sure about the speculative win/lose conclusion. 2 self driving cars walk into a bar

What would Autopilot do in a Hydroplane event or if a front tire were to blow out? Has anyone been in these situations? I would think the front tire blowout would be way too intense of an input for the system to maintain control, as well as a hydroplane event would result in the system over...

"The drive by media." Over past few years don't permit much of what I hear or read to make it within even filtering range of my mental processes. Often it's a regurgitating experience. We exist in times that news has become a question mark? A thing to be bought sold refurbished repackaged by its...

Okay yes, technically we got an update with the Camper mode release, but seriously. I was TOLD self driving woulda been here months ago, AP2 wouldn’t be AP0.5 anymore, and general patterns show we get updates in mid September/ October. Well I hate to be the one to bitch about it, but we have...

I have been watching u tube videos of autopilot in action. How does the autopilot handle right of way rules at a 4 way stop with traffic?

A thread dedicated to tips and best practices on how to best use autopilot! Can also include areas to avoid using autopilot. This is for all versions 1, 2, 2.5, M3...

A new paper by Shai Shalev-Shwartz, Shaked Shammah & Amnon Shashua off of Mobileye has been posted on Arxiv: "On a Formal Model of Safe and Scalable Self-driving Cars" attempts to provide a standardised "responsibility-sensitive safety system" (aka "The Finger Of Blame") for self-driving cars...

And now for something completely different Oct 9th 2016: Electric Bus? Snake Charger? Tow hitch? 'Tesla product unveiling on the 17th (unexpected by most)' Oct. 17th 2016: Need more time 'Moving the Tesla announcement to Wednesday. Needs a few more days of refinement.' The guy knows how to...

I'm looking to trade my 2013 Model S for a new one, mostly to get self driving features. I'm concerned that Tesla is the only company developing self driving NOT using LIDAR. Anyone know why Tesla thinks they can get the necessary information from more cameras instead of using LIDAR?

Just had cracked windshield replaced at S Florida SC and was told cameras were calibrated. On relatively short drive home received the “autopilot temporarily not available” and no lane markers visible at all on display. Next day wavy lines displayed and when available, eap would abruptly try...

For your consideration. Did you know that safety regs were being dodged? Robin Opinion | Would You Buy a Self-Driving Future From These Guys?