Was driving towards a roadworks the other day on a wide country road. Only 1 lane open, the others being repaved etc. To prevent cars, which have to share the same single lane from both directions crashing head on, they use mobile stopsigns that stand on the tarmac against the curb. The stoplichts alternate and let one side per turn through.
My car was on AP driving towards the stopsign (of which about 40cm stands on the street incl. the light-assembly) and it saw the sign‘s lights itself but did not see the wider batterybox and controller housing directly underneath the light-assembly. Had I not intervened, the car would have driven straight into the battery and controller housing. It did not beeb, made no attempt to steer clear. No reaction at all. It would have rammed the whole thing just like that.
In my case, the stoplicht was a bit more to the left, really on the asphalt, flush against the high curb and totally in the path of cars if they would keep driving straight ahead. In my situation, cars needed to swerve to the left a bit to avoid hitting it. AP did nothing. Kept on chugging along as if it wasn't there. And that's my gripe. Even if the car does not understand what that "thing below the stoplight" is, the radar should have picked it up, understand the collision-course and steer clear of it. But it did not.
AP currently is as stupid as a second coat of paint. It thinks all kinds of objects are garbage-cans, even other cars sometimes (which can be funny, I admit). It sometimes thinks vehicles two lanes to the right are in the adjacent right lane even though there is an empty lane in between but the vehicle‘s graphical representation bounces around both lanes like it is drunk.
It also regularly brakes for no reason at all, sometimes even doing full emergency braking just for a second before it realises that there was absolutely no reason for it and continues normally (and yes I've had my camera's re-aligned, calibrated etc. etc. but it still does it randomly). Hell, my daughter drives better than that...
"Almost ready for self-driving" my ass!
My car was on AP driving towards the stopsign (of which about 40cm stands on the street incl. the light-assembly) and it saw the sign‘s lights itself but did not see the wider batterybox and controller housing directly underneath the light-assembly. Had I not intervened, the car would have driven straight into the battery and controller housing. It did not beeb, made no attempt to steer clear. No reaction at all. It would have rammed the whole thing just like that.
In my case, the stoplicht was a bit more to the left, really on the asphalt, flush against the high curb and totally in the path of cars if they would keep driving straight ahead. In my situation, cars needed to swerve to the left a bit to avoid hitting it. AP did nothing. Kept on chugging along as if it wasn't there. And that's my gripe. Even if the car does not understand what that "thing below the stoplight" is, the radar should have picked it up, understand the collision-course and steer clear of it. But it did not.
AP currently is as stupid as a second coat of paint. It thinks all kinds of objects are garbage-cans, even other cars sometimes (which can be funny, I admit). It sometimes thinks vehicles two lanes to the right are in the adjacent right lane even though there is an empty lane in between but the vehicle‘s graphical representation bounces around both lanes like it is drunk.
It also regularly brakes for no reason at all, sometimes even doing full emergency braking just for a second before it realises that there was absolutely no reason for it and continues normally (and yes I've had my camera's re-aligned, calibrated etc. etc. but it still does it randomly). Hell, my daughter drives better than that...
"Almost ready for self-driving" my ass!
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