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posted by on Saturday December 31 2016, @11:12PM   Printer-friendly
from the still-keep-your-hands-on-the-wheel dept.

From Electrek.co:

Just a few weeks ago, we published a report about how Tesla's new radar technology for the Autopilot is already proving useful in some potentially dangerous situations. We now have a new piece of evidence that is so spectacularly clear that it's worth updating that report.

The video of an accident on the highway in the Netherlands caught on the dashcam of a Tesla Model X shows the Autopilot's forward collision warning predicting an accident before it could be detected by the driver.

[...] In the video embedded below, we can hear the Tesla Autopilot's Forward Collision Warning sending out an alert for seemingly no reason, but a fraction of a second later we understand why when the vehicle in front of the Tesla crashes into an SUV that wasn't visible from the standpoint of the Tesla driver, but apparently it was for the Autopilot's radar.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 01 2017, @02:36AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 01 2017, @02:36AM (#448019)

    Whatever it takes to rationalize the belief that you are one of the 80% who consider themselves an above average driver.

    Wild guess - you think ABS isn't useful either.

  • (Score: 2) by deadstick on Sunday January 01 2017, @04:04AM

    by deadstick (5110) on Sunday January 01 2017, @04:04AM (#448032)

    OTOH, 50% of drivers are below median driving skills.

  • (Score: 2) by vux984 on Monday January 02 2017, @10:51PM

    by vux984 (5045) on Monday January 02 2017, @10:51PM (#448686)

    Whatever it takes to rationalize the belief that you are one of the 80% who consider themselves an above average driver.

    To be fair, half of us *are* above average. I've got 20+ years driving experience, drivers ed, race track experience/education, etc... so yeah, I'm going to 'rationalize' that I'm above the average.

    Wild guess - you think ABS isn't useful either.

    /shrug/ I think ABS brakes have been able to brake markedly better than I can threshold brake, and have been able to do so for several iterations now.

    I'm all for additional sensors, and I'm even generally in favor of automated braking for collision avoidance.

    And I don't dispute the value of Telsa's driver assist technologies, nor fail to recognize that they never get tired, and never stop paying attention.

    However, I'm HIGHLY skeptical of their ability to handle even moderately complicated situations on their own, and think we are MUCH further away from truly autonomous driving than Tesla et al would have you think. Two days ago, for example, the police had blockaded an area; and were hand waving people through an improvised detour 'road' that included segments of driving in the oncoming lane of a divided street, a piece of parking lot, through painted boulevard, and then through a bus-only exit to get back onto the main road. Let me know when Tesla is ready for that...