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So this test drive on the Tesla reveals that the car, while on auto pilot, doesn’t recognize that the lane was ending. The driver had to take over and change lanes manually. Guess It’s back to the drawing board.
They shouldn’t call this car a Tesla and ruin a good man’s name. Perhaps a Junklà or a $%&#là would be more appropriate.
They might have called it a Marxie, After the man who created the grand socialist system where, not only do cars not work, but neither do the people.
When everything is free, there isn’t any point in working now is there!
That’s true, good one!
You’re no better than the autopilot – it did recognise the lane was ending! Just not recognising that it couldn’t just turn into a large vehicle as a priority.
It looked to me like drivers to his left were trying to allow him to merge but the autopilot couldn’t recognize that either.
You can see on his “heads up” dashboard that the “technological wonder car” DID recognize BOTH the tractor trailers AND the lane merge … both clearly displayed. However, it DID NOT recognize any of the very HUMAN signals being put out by the other drivers … such as the “invitation to merge”. We will all be told there is an easy solution to this AI glitch – remove all the human drivers! Problem solved. A very frightening, yet … logical … conclusion.
I suspect the software was simply “making a binary decision” between the LANE ENDING … and the TRACTOR TRAILER obstacle. The software CHOSE ONE. It CHOSE: “lane ending, move left” ignoring “big ass tractor trailer in the way – you’re gonna crash”.
Thankfully … MY HUMAN decisions are not … binary. My gigantic human brain takes many multiple inputs and calculates the safest (human survival instinct) course of action.
All the $ and expensive high tech auto pilot and they don’t even include rain sensing wipers, which my daughter had on her old Mazda 3.
Ha! My exact thought too! I believe my fine Bavarian automobile has had that feature since about 1994
When they make one that’s cheap enough to park outside….way away from the house…in the weather all the time…
…in the mean time…you’d have to be a complete idiot to park a self-igniting car…that can’t be put out….in your house
In other news – The Tesla driver was turned down in his Rhode’s Scholarship application.
Still probably better than many Asian drivers.
At least 57% of drivers cannot properly merge at a lane end. And I viscerally HATE them all.
depends on which car you are in….
Down here it’s ride right beside you until the very end….then punch it and cut you off
To properly merge all traffic should continue to the merge point and then alternate to maintain the traffic flow. Of course that is far too logical for most.
Actually, Asians generally don’t seem to do too badly behind the wheel, but the Chinese are another story.
Don’t forget Asians includes East Indians and Sikhs who are now a huge section of the transportation industry. Check who’s driving all the taxis, and buses and trucks …. mostly brown and lots of turbans. Not too many Chinese … if any at all. They have enough trouble driving cars.
Auto pilot, rear view cameras and parallel parking aids have all been developed because there are so many poor drivers on the road. I had to take my driver’s road test twice. I was 16 and I think the instructor just automatically failed you on the first try if you were a teen-ager. I passed because I could parallel park going uphill on the MacDonald Hill in Edmonton on icy winter roads. I have been in accidents, all of which have been caused by other drivers. I also took defensive driving classes in high school, in which the instructor said it was more important to avoid the accident instead of being in the right. When in doubt, I let the other driver (idiot) go ahead. Invariably, they are in an accident further up the road, while I drive on by.
Slaughter Pilot
Cut them some slack. It took about 65 years to get from the Wright Flyer to the Concorde, and 30 years to get from the Commodore 64 to the I Phone 10. In another 20 years this will be old hat.
Your Tesla didn’t turn you into a tractor trailer, it turned you into a blithering idiot who spent about 135 grand for this fancy piece of shit.
I would have spent 35 grand on a nice Subaru out back and put the other 100 grand into some sort of investment where I could make back my 35 grand.
I like a 10 minute fuel stop. I don’t like the idea of an 8 hours recharge period where I have no car.
Plus all the coal they have to burn to generate the electricity to charge all those up and coming electric pieces of shit.
The question I ask every proud owner of an EV, “How’s your power bill doing?” Rather than admit they’re the fool parted from their money, they either claim they weren’t keeping track or just get mad.