Category: Self Driving Roadkill

I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords

Shush now, Luddite.

The European Union has provisionally agreed to force every car sold in Europe starting in 2022 to include software designed to slow drivers down if they break the speed limit.
 
EU leaders on Monday agreed that every car, van, truck, and bus should be fitted with a feature called “Intelligent Speed Assistance” designed to slow them down if they go too fast.
 
The software uses a combination of GPS, sign-recognition cameras, and advanced map software to pinpoint a vehicle’s location and the local speed limit. The software is designed to automatically slow down vehicles found to break the limit.

You don’t know what you’re talking about, because buggy whip.

I, For One, Welcome Our New Self Driving Overlords

Sit back and let the machine figure it out.

A growing amount of scientific research involves using machine learning software to analyse data that has already been collected. This happens across many subject areas ranging from biomedical research to astronomy. The data sets are very large and expensive.
 
But, according to Dr Allen, the answers they come up with are likely to be inaccurate or wrong because the software is identifying patterns that exist only in that data set and not the real world.

 
“Often these studies are not found out to be inaccurate until there’s another real big dataset that someone applies these techniques to and says ‘oh my goodness, the results of these two studies don’t overlap‘,” she said.
 
“There is general recognition of a reproducibility crisis in science right now. I would venture to argue that a huge part of that does come from the use of machine learning techniques in science.”

I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords

Bloomberg Law;

A Tesla car crashed into a Virginia couple’s home on two occasions when its parking assistance features failed, a new lawsuit alleges.
 
Bikan and Daljit Octain paid $111,450 for a 2016 Tesla Model S 90D Automobile, including a $3,000 charge for the “Full Self-Driving Capability,” they allege in a suit in Virginia Circuit Court against Tesla Inc. and Tesla Motors Inc.
 
This capability includes the “Tesla Autopark” feature, which allows the car to be parked remotely, the complaint said. It also includes the “Tesla Summon” feature that lets owners move the car in and out of a parking space from outside the vehicle using a mobile app or the key, the complaint alleges.
 
But the car crashed itself once into their home and months later drove itself into the wall of their garage when they attempted to use the parking assist features, the Octains allege.

Maybe it was just stoned.

I, For One, Welcome Our Self-Driving Overlords

Whoa.

Our tests also exposed the infallibility myth that surrounds computers and automated vehicles. Driving the same car toward the same target at the same speed multiple times often produces different results. Sometimes the car executes a perfectly timed last-ditch panic stop. Other times it brakes late, or less forcefully, or even periodically fails to do anything at all. In our stationary-vehicle test, the Impreza’s first run at 50 mph resulted in the hardest hit of the day, punting the inflatable target at 30 mph. It was only on the second attempt that the Subaru’s EyeSight system impressively trimmed the speed to just 12 mph before the collision.

I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords

Minor glitches.

I’m in the UK. My software update (2018.21.9) completed this morning. 2018 Model S 100D.

 

On an ‘A’ road drive today in dry, clear weather using Autopilot on a stretch of straight, clear, flat well marked road at 40mph the car suddenly and for no apparent reason tried to swerve off the road sharply, I had to grab the wheel (my hands always rest lightly on the wheel while AP is engaged) quickly to get the car back on track. This happened twice 45 minutes apart in similar conditions.

 

There was no break in the white lines and no apparent reason for it to do this.

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