Wow, did Tesla really enable traffic controls in UK and EU? I never thought it'd happen. The traffic controls in the UK are bonkers.
Tesla Traffic Light and Stop Sign Control begins international rollout
I don't think you guys appreciate the utter significance of Tesla releasing the traffic control feature world wide. My mind is beyond blown. I didn't think this was possible, and no other company is anywhere remotely close. I thought Tesla would find some feature-breaking issue, and it would stall their development. What we fail to appreciate constantly is that Tesla is pushing the reliability and accuracy of NNs beyond what is understood to be possible. Just imagine the size and depth of the NNs and data needed to roll out a consumer worthy traffic control feature world wide...
FSD development is accelerating at Tesla, whereas it's been stagnant or constant at others for a long time.
I think you clearly misunderstanding what's going on here. The NN needed for international rollout of traffic light and stop sign control already existed in Mobileye's EyeQ4 that went into production in Q4 2017.
It had NN for traffic signs, lights and road signs, etc for all major countries. It also had NN for relevance of traffic light. For example which traffic light handles which lane/lanes and types of lights, etc.
Tesla is actually late in this regard. All tesla did was add a basic actuation response control that would respond to the output of their NN.
Its basically the same as stopping for a car ahead of you. As Geohot says, "you treat the red traffic light and stop line like another vehicle" Its ACC for red lights/stop sign on the stop line. Its the exact same stopping code.
This is why it stops on the line or stops so back and away from the intersection. There's no intelligence in the current control system.
BMW already experimented with this feature using the 2017 EyeQ4, I can even say that Tesla copied the way they presented the feature.
For example they presented it as a separate feature that you can enable in addition to adaptive Cruise Control
And Lane Keeping. So you can for example just have ACC and Traffic/Stop sign control on.
But because these OEM and their tier1s move at a snail pace, it will be probably another year till you see it in a car, yet it will be using a chip from Q4 2017.. Which makes it appear that Tesla is so ahead, but its more like the traditional OEM are so slow to implement any technology.