I’ve driven a few Teslas lately and have been extremely impressed by the performance and comfort. But the auto steer and fsd preview are definitely underwhelming.
It can’t see a red light that is 120’ away to begin slowing down, nor does it consider that the navigation calls for a right turn at the light!
My theory is that the camera array needs to be larger and potentially much more data needs to be integrated into the decision making.
Even the fsd preview is scary when semi trucks seem to bounce left and right by about five feet per second while I pass them on the highway.
This is not a criticism of Tesla - the cars are a superb experience overall — just a note that the idea of self driving working on normal city streets or even suburban roads is pretty far fetched and will require significant enhancement to the tech that is in the 2023 vehicles.
I can’t believe it could be possible that less data is better than more data when it comes to self driving car sensors. Why not also include audio data and ir/uv data too?
I realized today that the Tesla system is noticeably slow to react to stimuli. It reminded me of how some gas station pumps emit a beep a second or so after you press a button when entering the zip code. Laggy, underpowered embedded systems.
Human drivers also don't need wheels. We can't pretend humans and computers are the same today so wishful thinking that "we do it so cars should be fine the same way" is the recipe for killing people every time the human fails to intervene and prevent it.
It can’t see a red light that is 120’ away to begin slowing down, nor does it consider that the navigation calls for a right turn at the light!
My theory is that the camera array needs to be larger and potentially much more data needs to be integrated into the decision making.
Even the fsd preview is scary when semi trucks seem to bounce left and right by about five feet per second while I pass them on the highway.
This is not a criticism of Tesla - the cars are a superb experience overall — just a note that the idea of self driving working on normal city streets or even suburban roads is pretty far fetched and will require significant enhancement to the tech that is in the 2023 vehicles.