Can Tesla's Self-Driving Software Handle Bus-Only Lanes? Not Reliably, No. - FuelArc News
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There was an interesting side-note in Tesla’s last earnings call, where they explained the main challenge of releasing Full-Self Driving (supervised!) in China was a quirk of Chinese roads: the bus-only lanes. Well, jeez, we have bus-only lanes here in Chicago, too. Like many other American metropolises… including Austin TX, where Tesla plans to rollout […]

It’s not hard to find videos of self-driving Teslas wilding in bus lanes. Check the videos out, then consider:

"There was an interesting side-note in Tesla’s last earnings call, where they explained the main challenge of releasing Full-Self Driving (supervised!) in China was a quirk of Chinese roads: the bus-only lanes.

Well, jeez, we have bus-only lanes here in Chicago, too. Like many other American metropolises… including Austin TX, where Tesla plans to rollout unsupervised autonomous vehicles in a matter of weeks…"

It’s one of those regional differences to driving that make a generalizable self-driving platform an exceedingly tough technical nut to crack… unless you’re willing to just plain ignore the local rules.

  • anomnom@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    7·
    3 days ago

    It switched autopilot off when the parking sensors (ultrasonic/radar range finder with a very narrow range) detected the wall.

    If Tesla isn’t doing that to hide deficiencies from NHTSA investigations, I’ll eat my shoe.

    Also FSD is an app running on the same hardware and camera systems as autopilot, what would make it better at “seeing” through mist or a reasonable facsimile of the road up ahead?

    • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.auEnglish
      15·
      3 days ago

      No it didn’t switch it off because of that.

      FSD and autopilot do different things using the same data. It’s fact that they behave differently.

      • anomnom@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        3 days ago

        From NHTSA IN 2022:

        “The agency’s analysis of these sixteen subject first responder and road maintenance vehicle crashes indicated that Forward Collision Warnings (FCW) activated in the majority of incidents immediately prior to impact and that subsequent Automatic Emergency Braking (AEB) intervened in approximately half of the collisions. On average in these crashes, Autopilot aborted vehicle control less than one second prior to the first impact,” the report reads.

        —https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/inv/2022/INOA-EA22002-3184.PDF

        How else with they suddenly know to hit brakes and stitch off ~1 seconds before impact? Coincidence, or negligent coding?