All these stories remind me of the one where there was a road with a sharp left turn. One foggy night, some kid ran the yellow line at the apex of the "L" straight up the proverbial oak tree. In the morning, he came back and found he got a car. Someone was following the yellow line right up and into that tree.
That story has me thinking that Tesla, Waymo, etc. are needing to pass a Pankster Obstacle Situation (POS) test in order to be certified as anywhere near Level 5. At a T-intersection, Tesla missed a Stop sign?? Why did it not recognize that it was at a Stop signable intersection and come to a complete (okay "the coast is clear" rolling) stop? What would happen if a drunk took out the sign the day before and it had not been replaced? What happens if a kid places a garbage bag over the stop sign in an impromptu POS test? In an interview between Sandy Munro and Elon Musk, Musk was saying that road line painting was not standardized and Tesla was having a hard time navigating through road construction areas. Here you have an area where people are working and are expecting to go home at shift's end instead of to a hospital or morgue. Okayyy, Tesla is working on it. Last night, I put my Tesla Model Y into Autopilot a little before a construction area. It was a slow drizzle/rainy night. Autopilot lost it and I had to take control. I'm grateful that no one was beside me and it didn't go the other direction and into a Jersey Barrier. Autopilot had grabbed the "wrong lines"? The more questions I ask of FSD and its kin, the more I am convinced that the sensors should be beefing up the driver's skills and alerting them to possible bad situations instead of trying to play God with your safety and mine. I think we have to ask questions of any FSD system. FSD is not an airliner being able to fly autonomously between point A and B in a well controlled airspace or SpaceX nailing a landing on a barge somewhere out in the middle of the Atlantic. We are dealing with situations where people, cars, and environmental factors interact in a myriad of ways every second of the day. You don't have a kid kicking a ball out onto a runaway or a commuter/pedestrian with "get home-itis" in the middle of the Atlantic. When was the last time a deer crossed the path of a SpaceX rocket? I think it is past time to rethink about obtaining Level 5 and concentrate on beefing up driver awareness of potential problems and letting the computer between our ears try and handle these situations. We are far better in reading the intentions of other drivers and pedestrians than any FSD package that may have a problem recognizing and then displaying the silhouette of a pedestrian. Peter Eckhoff PS I love my Model Y and I am not going to sell it. She's like a beloved girl friend with a few bad habits. _______________________________________________ Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org No other addresses in TO and CC fields UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org
