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https://arstechnica.com/cars/2020/06/tesla-driver-blames-autopilot-for-crash-into-police-car/
A Massachusetts man is facing a negligent-driving charge after his Tesla slammed into a police car that was parked by the side of the road. According to a state trooper, the man had Tesla's Autopilot technology turned on and said that he "must not have been paying attention." The crash occurred in December, but the defendant, Nicholas Ciarlone, was only recently charged in the incident.
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Tesla is aiming to build a more sophisticated self-driving system that fully understands the surrounding environment. Hopefully, Tesla's "full self-driving" software will eventually detect a situation like this and respond appropriately. But as of at least last December, the technology seems to still be a work in progress.
(Score: 4, Informative) by HiThere on Thursday July 02 2020, @02:26PM
Well, that's not quite true. But it's nearly true. Most advances are incremental, but occasionally there's one that isn't. It's usually unexpected. Vulcanized rubber is one example. Of course, even when there's a jump the first few iterations of improvement are relatively crude. Consider the vacuum tube. Or consider semiconductors. The first semiconductors were "galena crystals" that could detect radio signals. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_radio [wikipedia.org] Once vacuum tubes showed up there were a big improvement under most circumstances. They went through many cycles of improvement. And simultaneously the "crystals" were undergoing improvement. But it took a huge jump in processing for purity before transistors became usable.
So there are lots of jumps of various sizes, but the larger jumps are a lot rarer. And usually several different lines of development are going on at the same time. (Goodyear wasn't the only one working on improving rubber.)
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