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Auto pilot doesn’t detect deer
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Uncle Paul
Well-Known Member
No computer or person can correctly adjust to what a deer standing along side the road is precisely going to do when your vehicle approaches.
This is why thousands of them are hit every year. They are so unpredictable. Even if you slam on the brakes for every one of them, you have a good chance of being run into by the driver behind you on his cell phone.
Until vehicles are fully automated and integrated, accidents will continue to occure.
This is why thousands of them are hit every year. They are so unpredictable. Even if you slam on the brakes for every one of them, you have a good chance of being run into by the driver behind you on his cell phone.
Until vehicles are fully automated and integrated, accidents will continue to occure.
dgpcolorado
high altitude member
So, no pedestrians, bicycles and motorcycles? Some room for improvement I think...The list of things that AutoPilot is expected to detect: cars, trucks. The list of things that AutoPilot is NOT expected to detect: every other physical thing in the universe.
There, that should clear it up.
(We need a poll for those who have hit deer and those who haven't.)
suwaneedad
Member
OP, it seems possible that AEB simply didn't yet care about the deer. Motor Trend says that at 60mph, Model 3 needs just shy of 40 yards to stop. Bambi's just being Bambi for another 60 yards, in your scenario, before Model 3 may have decided to stop before getting any of Bambi on her.
Eventually evolution should select for deer with the least stupid flight response when encountering a car. The timing might synchronize nicely with the release of FSD.
But, we haven't heard anything of that since then.
To my knowledge the only company who has an AEB system that can detect a moose is a Volvo with the large animal detection update.
Audi has an animal detection feature using an infrared night vision camera. It works pretty well.
israndy
Supercharger Hunter
I am really surprised that the Tesla camera suite doesn't have an IR camera. I wonder how much improvement there will be in pedestrian and animal detection (and will they EVER avoid potholes?).
The current AP2 rides right up to bikers in the bike line, giving them no extra space when passing. Since the display on the Model 3 is incomplete I don't even know if it sees them. I know it doesn't see potholes, or perhaps it aims for them.
-Randy
The current AP2 rides right up to bikers in the bike line, giving them no extra space when passing. Since the display on the Model 3 is incomplete I don't even know if it sees them. I know it doesn't see potholes, or perhaps it aims for them.
-Randy
shrspeedblade
Rideshare Monkey
Hey, the best way to stay on the road in many parts of the North Bay is to aim for the potholes!
Warnings and AEB are disabled if your foot is on the brake, and for that matter on the throttle.
shrspeedblade
Rideshare Monkey
Well, it depends. Fat Bastard- more than likely. Mini-me not so much!
(RIP Verne Troyer!)
israndy
Supercharger Hunter
DR61
Member
Interesting... but were these stops done by the AEB system? i.e. with AP/TACC off and driver in control of steering and accelerator, would the same automatic stops have been made?
LBusDoor90
Member
israndy
Supercharger Hunter
This question haunts me. I have seen NO ONE making videos about this on YouTube. I really wanna know what the car will do when things get too close. I have had many opportunities to be merging with another car and it seems that the car will just let the other person hit me, I am always over-riding the controls to prevent it.
Someone needs to take that "trying to run over my friend" video and expand upon it so we can see how defensive the car actually is. Do the "The More You Know" guys read this board? Would be interesting to discover that the AEB doesn't work under certain conditions. I just trust that it always works. Probably dumb
-Randy
I joined the deer hitting club. Driving through forest at 60mph. I saw the first one run in front of me and i braked. Then the second one came out and plowed right into my Model S! OUCH!
Kentrock1
Member
Picking up on this now because it's almost exactly the same thing that happened to me the other night. Going 40-45 when 3 deer ran out and I nearly hit the 3rd. Not sure how TACC or AEB didn't see it. It was a LOT closer than another car you may be coming up too close on.
Maybe because deer are flesh and blood, not metal?
vjason
Member
Nor non-vehicle objects in the road, but I knew this. Every time we have a big storm I make sure to drive the whole way to work else I’ll likely plow into downed branches.
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