What are the limits of the current Autopilot hardware? Do you think it would be possible to expand it to include automatic lane changing for passing and the ability to follow the navigation system (on-ramp/off-ramp only, not surface streets).
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The autopilot has no access to the rear facing camera.
Is that a hardware limitation of the current design, or simply a software implementation?
Do we know how the Autopilot passes sensor data among the various modules and where the decisions are made?
(I know the camera, radar, and ultrasound are all used to make some of the decisions, and some decisions with steering appear to use information from all three, so there's clearly some sensor fusion going on...)
Walter
I'm not sure I understand the question. My 2015 does a great job with auto lane change when in autopilot. Very reliable -- I use it often.
According to the Google engineers who are considered the top in the field on autonomous cars, full autonomy depends can currently only be accomplished with LIDAR...
Nags every two minutes, holy cow! It was better before the update.
I highly recommend watching the MobileEye CEO at this years CES. It's long but fascinating information about autonomous driving, including a comparison to Google's approach.According to the Google engineers who are considered the top in the field on autonomous cars, full autonomy depends can currently only be accomplished with LIDAR...
With version 1.0 there were no nags and the autopilot behavior was very predictable. With the current updates, the nags were clearly added for legal reasons, not technical. The same goes for the speed restrictions. In my particular case, on the express lanes here in S. FL, the posted speed limit is 70mph. With the latest update, while on the express lanes (which are 3 lanes wide) the camera picks up speed signs from nearby onramps/offramps and now slows the car down. The most concerning is one area that the car slows rapidly to 45 mph while the rest of the traffic is doing 75+. The area in question is 595 between Weston and Ft. Lauderdale heading east. The problem with the legalizing of TACC/AutoPilot behavior is that the car absolutely does not know where it is, which causes problems with TACC if the car thinks it is on a ''restricted" road when it is not.
If Tesla wants to be consistent with its 'safety' restrictions with autopilot and TACC then it should never allow you to exceed the speed limit at any time on any road.
Just my opinion but I don't need to have my car crippled with a half baked legal solution to a perceived potential liability problem due to a few youtube videos.
... In my particular case, on the express lanes here in S. FL, the posted speed limit is 70mph. With the latest update, while on the express lanes (which are 3 lanes wide) the camera picks up speed signs from nearby onramps/offramps and now slows the car down. The most concerning is one area that the car slows rapidly to 45 mph while the rest of the traffic is doing 75+. ...