Autonomous Vehicles

"Stanford University Dynamic Design Lab have completed a study that examines how human drivers respond when an autonomous driving system returns control of a car to them... The results of the study were published on December 6 in the first edition of the journal Science Robotics." "The study...

Today Michigan's governor signed a bill that allows car makers to test their autonomous vehicles on Michigan roads - without a driver present. So I guess Tesla can arrange for some of their customers in Michigan to get an Over The Air update with an entirely autonomous AP-version, for some...

There will be a review of the Pennsylvania Autonomous Vehicle Policy Task Force's final testing policy in an online public meeting at 7 p.m. Monday, Dec. 12. Autonomous Vehicle Testing

I notice as I drive that I do things behind the wheel based on my prediction of what is about to happen ahead. I have not heard anything about this on the write-ups about Tesla's Auto Pilot. If the light turns green ahead and the Tesla can calculate it will be red if it keeps going the speed...

This presumes that Tesla arrives at the software solution to autonomous driving before others. If Tesla is able to accomplish this, and Tesla's mission is to advance sustainable energy, doesn't it make sense for them to sell the capability to other car makers to use specifically for their EVs...

With Tesla's Autopilot, and the new option of "Full Self-Driving Capability", and free supercharging - can I have my tesla sneak over to the supercharger to have a suckle while I sleep?

A lot of backstory here as at one point Musk wanted Hotz to work for Tesla on autopilot, he created a system on his own "on par with tesla autopilot at first launch" then shut down by the NHTSA (or at least in part)... but today he open sourced the software he made. Will be very interesting to...

Talk from TMC Connect 2016 recorded last July.

Comments about this initiative? MIAMI, Oct. 24, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Aspen Institute today announced the Bloomberg Aspen Initiative on Cities and Autonomous Vehicles, a new program for leading global mayors who will work together to prepare their cities for the...

The discussion always seems to imply that the car has to take full responsibility of handling every possible situation. Currently we provide freeways which limit the challenges to driving. Minimum speeds are established, fences keep people and animals away, access is restricted, etc. I would not...

Hi, Just thought I'd see what you guys think about my thoughts. I'm a big fan of electric cars and whilst keeping up to date with them, the autonomous side has obviously been improving. I've seen a couple videos online and it's looking quite capable. However, where I live in the UK, I just...

this. | Car Wars A lot of good questions interspersed with a worst-case scenario. My conclusion: I want a steering joystick in my autonomous car with a dumb-switch to override the computer.

Recently there was a video posted demonstrating pedestrian collision avoidance in the most recent 8.0 SW updates. Who knew, Tesla Autopilot has a human collision avoidance system There was a brief discussion on the forum about this. Basically with 8.0 and either TACC or AP the vehicle will...

At first, I believe, that car software will try to mimic humans while staying clear of other erratic human behavior. It will also mean learning nuances of different municipalities road construction idiosyncracies. At first, this will seem like an AMAZING success. This will be followed by a...

Tesla releases new self-driving demonstration video with real-time ‘Tesla Vision’ feed "Late Friday night, Tesla released a second video demonstration of its new self-driving platform and this time, it included real-time feeds from what ‘Tesla Vision’, the automaker’s end-to-end image...

I am pretty optimistic about L5 autonomy being obtainable in the next couple of years, but how will you make the best use of it? That hour commute to work will actually be productive instead of being a massive time-suck. No more DUIs; if no one is require to be in the drivers seat, going to Napa...

Tweet from Elon: "we could enable that, although the cameras use grey, grey, grey, red detection, so it would look a little greyish red :)" We suspected something like that based on the demo video they released, but now we know for sure. (Which isn't the same clear-clear-red that MBLY uses.)

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With Tesla setting the expectation that full autonomy will be running on Tesla vehicles sometime next year, where does that put all the other players? In August 2016, Ford was talking about a 2021 target for autonomous driving. GM is planning on releasing it's Super Cruise feature that looks...

Thought it might be nice to have a thread where people can list out corner cases they run into on a daily basis that would likely cause trouble for an autonomous car or at least not be handled as well as a human driver typically would. This will serve a few purposes. 1) A reminder of how...

Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk Says Future of Autonomous Cars is Nigh | NVIDIA Blog

I don't know if it has changed or not, but Tesla actually doesn't promise full self driving capability. It says "in almost all circumstances " That is rather wide disclaimer.

George Hotz cancels his Tesla Autopilot-like ‘comma one’ after request from NHTSA

I wonder if self-driving and the Tesla network would be available in Central MN when it gets the OK. Unlike Uber which only is available in bigger cities in MN now. Would smaller cities ban the use of Tesla ride sharing to protect city/county bus services? Would you have to get special high cost...

So I thought I had a great idea for how to solve the problem when a driverless car get's into a sticky situation and needs help. If there's a person in the car, that's easy. But what happens when summoning a car from across the country and it get's pulled over for having a blown tail light...

According to the (very limited) information available, all new cars are coming with 8 cameras. if you don't purchase EAP, the system only uses 1 of those cameras, if you do, it uses 4, and if you purchase the full self driving, it uses all 8. Now, this has been hashed back and forth a lot...

I, like everyone else who took delivery in the last few weeks, hit the forums in anticipation of finding some shred of hope that my 25 day old car would be able to be retrofitted with AP 2.0 hardware. I started thinking I missed the bus until I actually started to think about it: I have never...

I stumbled on couple recent videos where NVIDIA demo's Drive PX2 self driving capabilities. The software used in the videos may not be what Tesla end up using but the presenter mentioned about the DriveWorks SDK for autonomous driving from NVIDIA which Tesla may or not leverage in their own...

In my opinion this is more impressive than the Tesla video, but it will help make the case for what Tesla is doing as well.

There's been lots of discussion about the full self driving capability recently, and if it is worth it, so I figured I would ask Tesla sales... below is the cut and pasted transcript of a chat with Tesla from their customizer screen: (Note, before you read it and are disappointed, there's...

When will first 2.0 cars be in customers hands?

One of the things that the recent announcement has done is made me think about what the full self driving capability (FSDC) is worth. Then I wondered what it was worth to others. So, ASSUMING that it existed, was tested, and approved for use in all the areas you NORMALLY go... what would you...

I'm looking for input from experienced AP1 owners . Autopilot sure does lull you into a false sense of security. Being a techie I know software will have bugs and hardware will fail. Its a matter of "when" not "if". I've just placed an order and excited about getting the new hardware. However...

Hi all - I thought the press (and others) were being a little unfair about the "restrictions" around ride-sharing for profit with your self-driving Tesla, so I wrote an article about it. Please let me know what you think, or if I got anything wrong...

1. Try pricing a Mercedes E-class with the closest thing to Autopilot 1.0 (still not as good), it will cost nearly $12K in upgrade packages!! 2. Use the Tesla Network to have your car earn money driving people around when you don't use it 3. A couple or family could have 1 car instead of...

So, I admit that I am mostly ignorant with regards to what Federal and / or State laws are currently in existence that would prevent/prohibit/limit an autonomous vehicle from operating on public roads. Those in the know, what laws exist now (if any) that would stop anyone from sending a...

" Say you're driving down a two-way street and there's a lorry unloading a delivery in the opposite lane. The oncoming traffic needs to pull out into your lane to overtake. What do you do?" See this well argued BBC article Would you bully a driverless car or show it respect? - BBC News and I've...

For level 5 Autonomous driving (driving without anyone in the drivers seat or in the car) Elon Musk has previously stated that the system needs to have redundancy on all levels. I can not see that this system has the required redundancy to achieve this. For instance there is only one computer...

while it is clear, that it is very difficult to completely retrofit current Teslas with new features or Elon would catch opportunity to offer upgrade, there are few things which could be done 1. install new 8 meters ultrasound sensors in place of current sensors 2. new radar in place of old...

2016/10/20 text capture of Autopilot ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Full Self-Driving Hardware on All Cars All Tesla vehicles produced in our factory, including Model 3, have the hardware needed for full self-driving capability at a safety level...

Correct me if I'm wrong, but from what I've been picking up, the new autonomous capabilities in every new Tesla vehicle are powered by an NVIDIA Drive PX 2 processing unit. Each unit is liquid cooled supercomputer and as powerful as "150 Macbook Pros" (quote from NVIDIA CEO at CES 2016). BUT...

Tesla works on new 'Tesla Vision' platform for autonomous driving Tesla is about to increase its lead in semi-autonomous driving w/ ‘Tesla Vision’: computer vision based on NVIDIA’s parallel computing

cannot figure if following belongs more to 'technical' or to autonomous topic, but if anything wrong, mods will make right action. So the story is that, you know, Elon has idea, that radar can replace lidar for AP for all situations, while others think differently. From what we can see so...

So this happened to me yesterday (thankfully heavy traffic meant slow speed). For some reason AP started following the idiot in front, who was not staying in the lane. Why would AP so that? Why not just stay in the middle of the lane? On a side note, is there a way to tell AP I prefer to hug...

At least until the feature truly offers true, level 4 autonomous driving. CA to restrict use of term Autopilot: Tesla-owning pilot weighs in

Actually reminds me of the Disney movie WALL·E where people spending their lives in a spaceship are so lazy they get obese. Forget Self-Driving Cars. Self-Driving Chairs Have Arrived http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/09/29/495915381

From AppleInsider, which explains the mention of Apple in the article summary quoted below: California approves limited testing of self-driving cars without wheels or backup drivers