Autonomous Vehicles

A recent study from the American Automobile Association suggests it might be more serious than that. The vast majority of surveyed Americans admitted to being “afraid” of riding in an autonomous vehicle while over half said they felt less safe at the prospect of sharing the road with driverless...

Hello all, Long time reader first time poster. On the hunt for 3 things: 1: CPO S85 (Coming from a '12 Volt) 2: Staying remotely on budget (+/- 55k) 3: AutoPilot (v1.0) But fate & my budget says i can only have 2 of those 3 things. Alas my dilemma. Right now the difference in a normal CPO...

The Toyota Research Institute (TRI) displayed its 2.0 generation advanced safety research vehicle at the company’s Prius Challenge event in Sonoma, California. The all-new test vehicle will be used to explore a full range of autonomous driving capabilities.

I had this crazy shower thought this morning... What if we are seeing a lot of reports of AP performing poorer than expected because of something nefarious in the corporate sabotage realm? What if before the former director of AP left Tesla (the one who allegedly stole their secrets and whom...

Over the past weeks, I've learned more and more about the concept of AP 2.0 and how the 'AI' in the car will try to learn itself how to drive based on the sensor inputs of the car. The NVIDIA system, based on the DAVE2, was able to succesfully steer the car after a period of trial-and-error...

No semi self-driving as a halfway stage. A report by Bloomberg says Ford is going to skip a step and go straight to fully autonomous driving. The article says that is because engineers who are testing the company's self-driving vehicles are falling asleep at the wheel because there is so little...

Waymo, Google’s self-driving car division, has filed a lawsuit that claims a former engineer and current executive at Uber stole 14,000 confidential documents that were used to build Uber’s self-driving vehicles. The suit specifically points to Anthony Levandowski, who was influential in...

Dear camera savvy, driver assistance-knowledgeable and AP2HW insightful fellows. My head is full of questions about Teslas 8 x camera sensor suite. Such questions are being touched upon now and then in many different threads, but I would really like to read some more focused discussion on the...

I'm driving AP1 Tesla and one thing i have noticed is that rear camera gets dirty very fast. I'm surprised, that Tesla didn't equip AP2 cameras with washers.

The Verge posted a video from Drive.ai A rainy night is no trouble for this self-driving car Can anyone tell me what is happening in the footwell at 3:20?

Front and rear steering is great for a tight turning circle and for vehicle parking. Lucid Air and some Ford trucks have it, or will have it. It is great for putting an autonomous vehicle into a tight space - great for many European cities. When will we see it on a Tesla???

I purchased my Model S from new inventory. I definitely wanted EAP and am very interested in FSD but didn't mandate that as a requirement at the time, happy to pay for the upgrade when working but more importantly if/when there legally allowed. It looks like most testing (although not all) of...

As details of Tesla’s new version of Autopilot emerge, there’s a clear emphasis on safety, including a tweet-of-caution from CEO Elon Musk. Musk’s Twitter feed, TMC Community posts and other news outlets have reported that Autopilot became available last week to cars equipped with second...

I got to capture my ride home on the expressway tonight with my GoPro. It's only a 6 mile stretch, but it was just right so that I got to 45 mph but never had to go over. I had to take over to handle two lanes merging and for lane changes, but that's it. At the end it even follows the exit ramp...

People keep talking about how autonomous cars are going to interact with pedestrians. How do you catch the eye of a self driving car? I am curious how it will handle people telling it to move. Makes sense. If the car parks itself somewhere it shouldn't there is a brain in there that can wake up...

Tesla and other automakers running self driving cars in California have all now submitted their 2016 testing results. With the most important metric being how often the driver needs to take control from the autonomous system. Story here: Tesla Is Testing Self Driving Cars on California Roads...

I just sent the following note to Tesla, but wanted to alert others to some of the problems we have experienced with AP2... We have 17.3.2 and have used AutoSteer extensively on a number of interstate highways since its initial release. Primitive would be an understatement. Here's what we have...

Good morning! Yesterday I was driving to Colorado Springs. Just south of Denver, on a straight run of I-25, I was following a 1-ton construction truck that I could not see around. Follow distance was set at 7, and early warning was set as it always is in my Model X. After 20 minutes in...

I pick the ones most quintessential and interesting, IMO. The author mentioned fifty. 1. Transportation-as-a-service; no or less car ownership. 2. Vehicle designs will change radically . The new players in vehicle design and manufacturing will be a mix of companies like Uber, Google and Amazon...

Compared to Tesla, it appears most companies may have some catching up to do.

Car lobby pushing Bay State pols to back self-driving autos

I had the opportunity to experience the new "hold" feature on my ap1 S while waiting at an exceptionally long light, and it got me thinking: considering the mobile eye cameras can recognize stop signs and I believe the color red, along with gps data, perhaps the new hold feature will be used...

It would be nice if AP1 would slow for speed bumps. I think it would be easy to implement. If driver always slows in the same place and immediately accelerates after that spot, AP should do the same after certain learning threshold.

After reading this article today in electrek: First picture of Tesla’s new NVIDIA onboard supercomputer for Autopilot installed in a car It seems that the current hw2 vehicles can realistically achieve level 4 with the processing power of the current chipset, and although a swap out for newer...

Watch GM’s self-driving car navigate the streets of San Francisco Looks like GM made a pretty wise investment in acquiring Cruise Automation.

i was curious what others thought about the idea of providing feedback to Tesla when autopilot acts in a way you are not comfortable with. Here is and example: You take an off ramp with autopilot enabled. The car takes the off ramp but maintains a speed faster than what you feel is safe. You...

Just watched this documentary from NHK (Japan). It's narrated by an American, but the tone is that irritating lecturing down tone a lot of Asian documentaries tend to take. As far as I can tell it first came out in November 2016. It's Japan-centric as you'd expect, but they spend a fair bit...

Chris Lattner was hired on and Sterling Anderson has left the company. What do you think this means for the autopilot program? Is there bad blood? In your opinion, what's going on?

Here is the link to the keynote where the results were discussed: Alphabet Says its Autonomous Cars Needed Less Human Help in 2016 Driver required intervention dropped from 0.8 per 1,000 miles driven in 2015 down to 0.2 per 1,000 miles driven in 2016. When California releases the annual report...

In October 2016, Tesla released a video showcasing the full self-driving capability of a Model X and it was very impressive. I canceled my ICE car order which was due to be delivered in late December and immediately ordered a Model S P100D. I assumed then that the codebase behind the FSD...

If Uber thought there was a loophole to circumvent CA Autonomous Vehicle Test Permit, a new bill is now introduced to give some teeth for DMV to 1) impound the vehicles, 2) fine companies up to $25,000 per vehicle, per day of violation, 3) ban violators from applying for autonomous vehicle...

It was a CES demonstration of how Self-Driving Car could be as envisioned and combined by 6 companies Microsoft, NXP, IAV, Swiss Re, Esri, and Cubic Telecom all rolled in specially equipped Volkswagen Golf Estate. Apparently, stopping for a stationary vehicle is still a challenge. The driver...

I saw this on CNET What to do while riding in a highly-automated BMW car - Roadshow I have to say after all the fiasco over "auto-pilot", I'm surprised BMW didn't introduce the iDriver instead of the "co-pilot". If this flies with media and governing bodies, then someone needs to remove the...

If you haven't seen the Nvidia CES keynote from last night here it is: NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang to Keynote CES 2017 Autonomous vehicle part starts at 41:45 There are a lot of interesting concepts introduced.

Nvidia and Audi aim to bring a self-driving AI car to market by 2020 Xavier has the same computing power as Drive PX2, but it usess less power

seems others are pretty advanced with Autonomous tech Hyundai Ioniq autonomous ride review programmed course, but public road demo with no intervention. Even more is the the Ioniq can be configured as a full EV. Quite impressed, Tesla and Uber might be catching the headlines but some others...

I did some research on the battle to win our self-driving future between Uber and Tesla. Here is what I found -

Link to Electrek article: Tesla Autopilot’s new radar technology predicts an accident caught on dashcam a second later I've been critical of AP here, but this is pretty impressive.

I found a simple way to bypass the restriction. For my Canadian friends change the units to MPH and set AP to any speed you like. Have fun. I believe same is true for the Americans but I have not tried it yet, since I am in Canada for a week. Change the units to KPH. Then adjust the speed to...

A bunch AP2.0-cars out, but not yet any pictures of the AP2.0-ECU. So please be the 1st person to post images of the OEM Tesla Vision (Autopilot) 2.0 ECU "supercomputer". 99.9 % sure it's mounted in dashboard, above glove box (passenger side). You'll need to remove outer panels + glove...

Can anyone that has AP 2.0 report the nag level with the new hardware?

So how would this work. Assuming Level 5 is enabled and can drive fully autonomous so you have a few drinks and set it to go home. You go through a DUI checkpoint. Is it cool as it can drive by itself? How will they know it was the car and not you driving by itself? I don't drink and drive but...

As Tesla AP advances toward L4 and L5, it will need a more sophisticated voice interface that's able to handle pretty much everything. If it's useful some functions might be interactive with the touch screen or a HUD displaying choices or relevant information. This is especially needed for use...

Automated Vehicles

Uber won't back down from self-driving car fight with DMV All Autonomous testers got their CA DMV permits but UBER got their cars without DMV Autonomous Tester permit. It was fine until some one caught its autonomous car didn't stop for a red light at a pedestrian cross walk when the...

Hi everyone! I am currently reseraching which characteristics drivers would like to have in autonomous vehicles. It would really help if you could fill this quick survey!! At the end of the project I will share the results with you! Thank you very much!! Autonomous Driving - User Control Options

Ford studies using drones to guide self-driving cars 16 Dec 2016 at 06:45 WRITER: AFP DETROIT - Ford Motor Co. is studying a system to use drones to help guide self-driving vehicles, including on off-road adventures, company officials said. Drones launched from an autonomous vehicle could...

Interesting article today from CNN Tech. No mention of Tesla. Too bad. Enjoy! GM to build self-driving cars in Detroit "We expect that GM will become the first high-volume auto manufacturer to build fully autonomous vehicles in a mass-production assembly plant," Barra said in a speech at...

Here is a recent article for autonomous driving: Uber offers self-driving car rides in San Francisco — and California threatens legal action While I am excited I see more and more autonomous driving happening I am upset that some companies aren't following the intention of guidelines. What...

I now know AP1 doesn't have pot hole avoidance! I didn't expect to see such a large pot hole on the Gardiner Expressway Eastbound and neither did AP1. Wondering if AP2 will have the capability? What happens when there's road debris such as items falling from trucks? Has anyone experienced...