Musk promises AP will be able to avoid potholes

[diplomat33]

 

[willow_hiller]

Is that really a promise? Or more of a "Yes, I agree that's a good idea" ? I feel like it's the latter.

 

[azred]

That will be in 2022.1 firmware and HW5 cameras

 

[electronblue]

That, or more optimistically, knowing Musk’s public style it could also be something Tesla is ready to demo on the 22nd and Musk just looked for a tweet to answer like he seems to do in such instances.

 

[Silicon Desert]

Is that really a promise? Or more of a "Yes, I agree that's a good idea" ? I feel like it's the latter.

yea that is what I was thinking. Not a promise. More like wishful thinking.

 

[Engr]

Is that really a promise? Or more of a "Yes, I agree that's a good idea" ? I feel like it's the latter.

You might extend it to be an abbreviation of:
3 months maybe, 6 months "definitely".

 

[diplomat33]

Is that really a promise? Or more of a "Yes, I agree that's a good idea" ? I feel like it's the latter.

When you say "definitely", I feel like it is a promise, just not one with any timeline attached to it.

 

[TMThree]

He's saying it's a good idea. He didn't promise anything.

 

[electronblue]

Pothole detection is nothing new in cars, I think the first German vehicles to take active measures upon seeing them came out ten years ago.

 

[Engr]

Pothole detection is nothing new in cars, I think the first German vehicles to take active measures upon seeing them came out ten years ago.

Yhh @Bladerskb has already mentioned that multiple times with "Amon" explaining his approach.

 

[Tam]

Pothole detection is nothing new in cars, I think the first German vehicles to take active measures upon seeing them came out ten years ago.

Good to know!

But has any company planned to incorporate that to ADAS or Autonomous technology sooner like by the year 2030 or 2040?

 

[electronblue]

Yhh @Bladerskb has already mentioned that multiple times with "Amon" explaining his approach.

Yes but my point was given this background it would not be so surprising if Tesla had actually implemented something in this sphere instead of Musk just tweeting wishful thinking. Who knows.

 

[electronblue]

Good to know!

But has any company planned to incorporate that to ADAS or Autonomous technology sooner like by the year 2030 or 2040?

I am not aware of anyone steering around them.

Many cars — including the new Ford Fusion and Focus — detect potholes and adjust their suspension. There are some different approaches to this but basically the idea is that by dropping individual wheels real-time you can glive over them instead of dropping into them. Mercedes Benz S-Class I believe was amongst the first to implement camera-based detection earlier in the decade and many German brands have similar.

Tesla unfortunately is a bit antiquated in their dynamic suspension and shocks department so smart features there are not something they can just implement in software so I would indeed expect steering would be their choice.

 

[mhan00]

That can’t be easy. I’ve missed potholes myself driving at highway speeds in traffic, or had brief moments where I thought a patch job was a pothole since the darker color of the new paving material stands out. It would be a remarkably impressive achievement if anyone could get there even with lidar, let lone vision alone.

 

[sootless]

It might be possible to detect and store the geo location of the pot hole. The first tesla would hit it and then none after. This is a feature tesla definitely wants. It will reduce warranty claims and repairs.

That can’t be easy. I’ve missed potholes myself driving at highway speeds in traffic, or had brief moments where I thought a patch job was a pothole since the darker color of the new paving material stands out. It would be a remarkably impressive achievement if anyone could get there even with lidar, let lone vision alone.

 

[DanCar]

That will be in 2022.1 firmware and HW5 cameras

Be serious. Will only require HW4 with FSD+ package.

 

[Silicon Desert]

That can’t be easy. I’ve missed potholes myself driving at highway speeds in traffic, or had brief moments where I thought a patch job was a pothole since the darker color of the new paving material stands out. It would be a remarkably impressive achievement if anyone could get there even with lidar, let lone vision alone.

It wasn't easy returning rockets and landing them vertically which had never been done before, except in the 1950s Buck Rogers films where they were tied to strings Elon's SpaceX team did it.

Pot holes? A piece of cake by comparison.

 

[Randy7fx]

This post is like reading Electrek....Elon tweets a one word answer and people turn it into "a thing"...

 

[heltok]

I assume this will need a few spins in the software 2.0 loop before it’sready. First they need to make their labelers label tons of potholes. Then they need to make an algorithm to estimate where potholes are in local frame. Then they need to gather data on which potholes humans avoid, which potholes humans slow down for and which ones we ignore. Then they need to find a good tradeoff between staying in line, having a good distance to other vehicles and avoiding potholes. Then they can start adding potholes to their maps. Then they can even add lane planning to avoid potholes.

Give it like 5-10 software updates into the future and the system should be really nice.

 

[GeoX750]

This post is like reading Electrek....Elon tweets a one word answer and people turn it into "a thing"...

Well, the one word was "Definitely." Stop.

Did he mean, "Definitely think about it," and left off the "think about it" ?