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This really needs to be fixed. Hopefully this video will help make that obvious.
Yep. That's what I'm hoping for. When this first happened I did spend a lot of time on the phone with them about and they pulled the logs. They said they couldn't tell much from them and wondered if I had video. Now I do, so I should give them a call again.I wonder if 8.0 will make it any better...
Oh, geez. What a horrible onramp.
I thought the same thing. It's almost an accident waiting to happen under the best of circumstances. At the same time, however, it's not an excuse for what the car did. That just amplifies what is already a dangerous situation.
I had an 07 Prius that did a similar thing every time the wheels spun a little (like when you are flooring it to merge onto a highway). As soon as the wheels slipped a little the car would stop accelerating, it drove me crazy and was very dangerous. Sold it.
You will accelerate faster if you limit your acceleration just before slipping. Once you start slipping (overcome the static coefficient of friction), you have to slow down the wheel significantly to gain traction again.
However, I think the video of OP is a different issue. Hopefully, it will get resolved with new 8.0 software.
Just recently (last week or two), I've been getting some "ghost" cars showing up on my dash display, along with all the warnings (sounds like what you're potentially experiencing). Usually catches me off-guard because there is no vehicle directly in front of me. I'm usually driving at speed when it happens (rather than accelerating) so in my case there wasn't any safety issues for me(ie it's not trying to brake hard on my behalf).Yes totally different. The console displays "Obstacle Detected" - this is not traction control, this is the car thinking a crash would be eminent if it allowed you to accelerate. My guess is that it is either the radar or ultrasonic sensors being used in a way that has no doppler or other velocity information, or the latency of the processing is too high. It seems that it is deciding to not let you accelerate because there is a car in front of you "now" without taking the relative motion of that other vehicle into account. Another driver in this thread mentioned having the same thing happen when trying to cross a busy street perpendicularly. Basically the car gets spooked pretty easily because it has a very limited view of the world through its sensors. It will be interesting to see in what ways 8.0 can improve on this.
It certainly doesn't excuse any active safety system for failing, but does illustrate the infrastructure problem we have. Where there are so many poorly designed roads that aren't very compatible with driver aids let alone autonomous driving technology.
Right now we're at a point where the NHTSA is pushing for things like AEB which this relates to, but there isn't any good testing standards to insure that BOTH the cars and the roads are compatible.
I have to point out, as I have before, that there are always gonna be a bunch of roads which aren't really 'designed' at all and aren't very compatible with any sort of driver aids. Dirt and gravel roads are the most obvious, but lots of ancient rural roads are like this, as well as ancient streets in old cities like Boston. It's just a wild and wooly environment. This is why I've been saying that full level 4 self-driving is impossible.