OK, a little break from PS5 news, PS5's have been sent out for review, so expect hands on videos in the next few days.
Until then I thought I would post about Tesla's newest update to their autopilot software. which makes the impressive leap to navigating on normal roads. Giving way to traffic, stopping at junctions, signalling and making turns. Basically navigating and driving itself.
Many people imagine self driving is still decades away, I think this video shows it is a lot closer than people realise.
It is still a beta, and is only sent out to a few Tesla drivers, who are deemed responsible enough to monitor it's performance. It is not perfect, but still very impressive, at least for the wide American roads. (only out in America)
There are a few videos available, I just chose this one for those interested, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DF8SP09Lz8&ab_channel=TeslaLife
Self driving will be worth billions if not trillions for the company that cracks it. So Tesla are by no means the only ones doing this, But to me they are way ahead of the pack.
Full Self Driving.
posted on 26/10/20
What will it first be used for, when the technology is fully ready?
posted on 26/10/20
comment by Mike (U1170)
posted 16 seconds ago
What will it first be used for, when the technology is fully ready?
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No doubt the military will be interested
posted on 26/10/20
Tesla have had Motorway driving for years, it is the easiest to achieve. Straight roads, with little manouvering, basically an advance cruise control.
Normal roads are far more challenging, junctions, roundabouts, Parked cars, signs, trees/ bushes etc, not to mention people, make it far more difficult for the AI.
But the major work is done, now it's a case of the march of nines.
posted on 26/10/20
Oh, Tesla are not allowing anyone in America to buy any car they lease. They want to use them as Robotaxis, basically UBER without the driver.
posted on 26/10/20
How would self driving cars affect the economy? It would put taxi drivers out of business and more importantly how would car insurance work
posted on 26/10/20
Self driving cars will affect many things. But once the genie is out of the bottle there will be no putting it back.
Once available, any country not embracing this tech will fall behind competitively. Cheaper transport of goods and people will offer a significant economic advantage.
Of course it will displace many traditional jobs, But that has always been the case with new technology. a simple example would be the computer.
Now instead of huge typing pools, one person can type and print more in half hour than a typing pool could manage in a day.
Many lost their jobs, but found opportunities elsewhere, that is the price of progress.
posted on 27/10/20
My biggest concern is what would happen if the vehicle malfunctions and runs over a person. Obviously there will be safeguards against that kind of thing happening but it can happen and even one accident to a person will bring bad publicity to self driving cars and stop it from being a reality
posted on 27/10/20
I used to think this was a fantastic advancement and looked forward to the day when I could sit in a self driving car and relax on my 30 mile commute to work - before I stopped going to the office.
It would be great to be able to go out and have a few drinks without having to worry about driving home.
But, as soon as the first self driving car crashes and kills someone, the mass hyseria will strike and I imagine put this back quite a while. The Luddites will revolt.
posted on 27/10/20
comment by See The Stars (U21395)
posted 1 minute ago
I used to think this was a fantastic advancement and looked forward to the day when I could sit in a self driving car and relax on my 30 mile commute to work - before I stopped going to the office.
It would be great to be able to go out and have a few drinks without having to worry about driving home.
But, as soon as the first self driving car crashes and kills someone, the mass hyseria will strike and I imagine put this back quite a while. The Luddites will revolt.
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Yeah that's what I'm most sceptical of. All it takes is one death and it could end the life of self driving cars before it even took off.
posted on 27/10/20
Well as of now, the driver is still the one responsible. They are the ones that are in charge of engaging and monitoring the system.
This is by no means level 5 autonomy, and Tesla makes sure you know that before using it.
Having said that it is a solid base to work from, The framework for self driving is in place, and it is now a matter of teaching the AI the more subtle art of driving, which is where the drivers using it come in .
Training the AI used to be done solely by humans, Tesla have invested In a supercomputer (Dojo) to massively increase data tagging, so we should see a rapid increase in learning.
No system will ever be 100% safe (even humans) So then as I said it's down to the march of nines, How safe must the car be, before it is deemed safe enough 99% 99.9% 99.99% 99.999%? etc
One thing is for sure, it will only keep improving with age, unlike humans, who get worse.