Eno Deb
Active Member
It does mention a few things that the system can't do. This is not an autonomous system that just needs "a little supervision". It simply lacks capabilities required to drive autonomously:Again, this doesn't really describe any of the capabilities of FSD beta. To me that quote translates to "We're not confident enough in the performance of the object detection to hand the entire driving task over to the system, yet. And as such when we release this feature to the public, the driver will still be responsible for monitoring and taking over when necessary."
Is achieving Level 3+ just a matter of improving the accuracy of the object detection? We don't know; this letter doesn't tell us that.
" City Streets’ capabilities with respect to the object and event detection and response (OEDR) sub-task are limited, as there are circumstances and events to which the system is not capable of recognizing or responding. These include static objects and road debris, emergency vehicles, construction zones, large uncontrolled intersections with multiple incoming ways, occlusions, adverse weather, complicated or adversarial vehicles in the driving path, unmapped roads. As a result, the driver maintains responsibility for this part of the dynamic driving task (DDT)."
This is not an autonomous system that just needs "a little supervision". It simply lacks capabilities required to drive autonomously.
Remember that Musk explicitly promised actual L5 for 2020 during the Q&A at the "autonomy day" in 2019, and for the end of this year recently. This will obviously not happen. It's amazing how he keeps getting away with this.