Elon has been very clear that when Auto Pilot is introduced this year it is only intended for use on major roads line freeways and highways.
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Wouldn't a full autopilot system require some form of LIDAR system that Google are using? I think Elon's claims of full autopilot would be limited to highways, at best, without such a LIDAR array.
Elon has been very clear that when Auto Pilot is introduced this year it is only intended for use on major roads line freeways and highways.
Agree, but unfortunately if you look at many of the headlines and articles since the announcement they frequently use "autonomous" instead of Auto Pilot which misrepresents what Elon said.
Elon has said openly that Model S already has the hardware to be autonomous, so X will also have it. In today's announcement Tesla went further and said that in about 6 mos they'd release OTA an update that would allow autopilot on highways and at low speed on private property...full driverless mode. So X will have that version in it's initial beta.
i think the low speed private property driverless will get a lot of attention as tech company campuses that are crawling with Tesla's set up Tesla autopilot valet friendly parking rules. These will be the first real world setting where we'll see genuine driverless cars doing something useful and pretty amazing, literally dropping off and picking up people without anyone in the drivers seat.
I don't know, a random number generator would be better than teaching it to drive by having it emulate your typical Boston driver.What better way to teach a computer how to drive than to sample the driving habits of tens of thousands of drivers?
I don't know, a random number generator would be better than teaching it to drive by having it emulate your typical Boston driver.
No, seriously, I don't want my car to be "as good as" my fellow human drivers. Even the good ones, and there are plenty of bad ones. I want it to be better than them.
Present company excluded, naturally. But do you want future self driving cars to drive like the the people you were sharing the road with?I spent most of today driving in Boston, but I'm sure you were not talking about my driving:smile:
Present company excluded, naturally. But do you want future self driving cars to drive like the the people you were sharing the road with?
I would imagine that if you're going to have the car map out the potholes as it drives, you feed that into some kind of active suspension instead of having the car swerve and dodge (don't some of the S-Class models have this, some cheezy name like "magic suspension"?).Probably not. I would just hope that after the miserable winter we had that self driving cars would be smart enough to avoid all the new pot holes.
There are times you have to go partially into the next lane to avoid the beating your tires and suspension take.
I would imagine that if you're going to have the car map out the potholes as it drives, you feed that into some kind of active suspension instead of having the car swerve and dodge (don't some of the S-Class models have this, some cheezy name like "magic suspension"?).
Tesla doesn't agree with your mindset.I've never understood this mindset. You buy a product as is and shouldn't expect it to ever be upgraded beyond how you bought it.
Autopilot features are progressively enabled over time with software updates. The current software version is 6.1, adding traffic-aware cruise control, forward collision warning, and camera-enabled automatic high/low beam headlights.
Model S periodically receives over the air software updates that add new features and refresh the touchscreen look and feel.
Hey, you're talking to a guy who had potholes in the street in front of his house that weren't fixed until his neighbors planted a full-on garden in them, in the middle of the street, and planted a sign in the middle of it with the mayor's phone number on it.Of course you're assuming the active suspension could handle the potholes, but you have to remember some of the potholes are on unbelievably deep.
Tesla doesn't agree with your mindset.
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Tesla continues to present this upgrade/update capability as a key feature of the car to buyers.
In Masdar city, Abu Dhabi they already hade sellfdriving cars to take people around the city so tesla will not be first with that. It may be the first car that normal people can buy how can drive automatically but if so it will be the newer version of Model S and not Model X
Abu Dhabi...sunny, clear. 42 degrees C...no chance of sleet, snow, freezing rain...:wink:
Seriously though, it would be interesting to see how their self driving vehicles would work in adverse conditions...sandstorm maybe?
See the presentation in my above post. There are sections that talk about not having lane markers. Idea is interpreting "freespace" based on everything around it. Trees, asphalt edge, other cars, shadows, signs, pedestrians, guardrails, etc, etc, etc. They show video of a nasty snow storm with some moderately clear lane (1 of 2 lanes on a road) from traffic and how the system can determine the correct path. Other videos show wet roads, reflections on the road where there are markers, darkness, etc and how they can still interpret a lane ... something like a human would do.Not really any sandstorms here, but we got pretty much all the seasons throughout a year. Heavy snow, freezing cold, slippery, sunny, dark, warm, etc. Looking forward to test these features here in Norway.