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A 2025 Tesla Model 3 in Full-Self Driving mode drives off of a rural road, clips a tree, loses a tire, flips over, and comes to rest on its roof. Luckily, the driver is alive and well, able to post about it on social media.

I just don't see how this technology could possibly be ready to power an autonomous taxi service by the end of next week.

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[-] orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 100 points 2 months ago

The worst part is that this problem has already been solved by using LIDAR. Vegas had fully self-driving cars that I saw perform flawlessly, because they were manufactured by a company that doesn’t skimp on tech and rip people off.

[-] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I wouldn't really called it a solved problem when waymo with lidar is crashing into physical objects

https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/waymo-recalls-1200-robotaxis-after-cars-crash-into-chains-gates-and-utility-poles/ar-AA1EMVTF

NHTSA stated that the crashes “involved collisions with clearly visible objects that a competent driver would be expected to avoid.” The agency is continuing its investigation.

It'd probably be better to say that Lidar is the path to solving these problems, or a tool that can help solve it. But not solved.

Just because you see a car working perfectly, doesn't mean it always is working perfectly.

[-] postnataldrip@lemmy.world 61 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

"It crashed!"

"Yes but it did it all by itself!"

[-] kambusha@sh.itjust.works 20 points 2 months ago

Except for the last 0.05 seconds before the crash where the human was put in control. Therefore, the human caused the crash.

[-] Buffalox@lemmy.world 46 points 2 months ago

The car made a fatal decision faster than any human could possibly correct it. Tesla’s idea that drivers can “supervise” these systems is, at this point, nothing more than a legal loophole.

What I don't get is how this false advertising for years hasn't caused Tesla bankruptcy already?

[-] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Well, because 99% of the time, it's fairly decent. That 1%'ll getchya tho.

[-] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 months ago

To put your number into perspective, if it only failed 1 time in every hundred miles, it would kill you multiple times a week with the average commute distance.

[-] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 11 points 2 months ago

Someone who doesn't understand math downvoted you. This is the right framework to understand autonomy, the failure rate needs to be astonishingly low for the product to have any non-negative value. So far, Tesla has not demonstrated non-negative value in a credible way.

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[-] RandomStickman@fedia.io 38 points 2 months ago

Anything outside of a freshly painted and paved LA roads at high noon while it's sunny isn't ready for self drivings it seems

[-] Bonesince1997@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

Or silly tunnels you can't get out of.

[-] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 12 points 2 months ago

Tunnels are extra dangerous. Not because of the likelihood of an accident, but because of the situation if an accident happens. It blocks the tunnels easily, fills it with smoke, and kills hundreds.

Except newly built tunnels in rich countries.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

Actual self-driving vehicles, sure. Just not whatever the fuck Tesla is doing.

[-] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 30 points 2 months ago

I mean, if Elon was my dad, I'd probably have some suicidal tendencies too.

[-] embed_me@programming.dev 15 points 2 months ago

More like the abusive step-father

[-] Skyrmir@lemmy.world 25 points 2 months ago

I use autopilot all the time on my boat. No way in hell I'd trust it in a car. They all occasionally get suicidal. Mine likes to lull you into a sense of false security, then take a sharp turn into a channel marker or cargo ship at the last second.

Exactly. My car doesn’t have AP, but it does have a shed load of sensors and sometimes it just freaks out about stuff being too close to car for no discernible reason. Really freaks me out as I’m like what you see bro we just driving down the motorway.

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[-] SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 8 points 2 months ago

They have auto pilot on boats? I never even thought about that existing. Makes sense, just never heard of it until just now!

[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago

They've had it forever. Tie a rope to the wheel. Presto. Autopilot.

[-] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 6 points 2 months ago

I'll point this post out to Wall Street Bets, Maersk stock will pop 10%+ overnight.

[-] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 months ago

They've technically had autopilots for over a century, the first one was the oil tanker J.A Moffett in 1920. Though the main purpose of it is to keep the vessel going dead straight as otherwise wind and currents turn it, so using modern car terms I think it would be more accurate to say they have lane assist? Commercial ones can often do waypoint navigation, following a set route on a map, but I don't think that's very common on personal vessels.

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[-] sidtirouluca@lemm.ee 24 points 2 months ago

self driving is the future, but im glad im not a beta tester.

[-] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 16 points 2 months ago

You're probably right about the future, but like damn, I wish they would slow their roll and use LiDAR

[-] FaceDeer@fedia.io 13 points 2 months ago

Elon Musk decided they absolutely would not use lidar, years ago when lidar was expensive enough that a decision like that made economic sense to at least try making work. Nowadays lidar is a lot cheaper but for whatever reason Musk has drawn a line in the sand and refuses to back down on it.

Unlike many people online these days I don't believe that Musk is some kind of sheer-luck bought-his-way-into-success grifter, he has been genuinely involved in many of the decisions that made his companies grow. But this is one of the downsides of that (Cybertruck is another). He's forced through ideas that turned out to be amazing, but he's also forced through ideas that sucked. He seems to be increasingly having trouble distinguishing them.

[-] LadyAutumn 21 points 2 months ago

He really hasn't. He purchased companies that were already sitting on profitable ideas. He is not an engineer. He is not a scientist. He has no training in any design discipline. He takes credit for the ideas of people he pays. He takes credit for the previous achievements of companies he's purchased.

What is it going to fucking take for people to finally actually see the grifter for what he is? He's never had a single good fucking r&d idea in his life 🙃 he has wasted billions of dollars researching and developing absolutely useless ideas that have benefited literally no one and have not made him any money. It is absolutely incredible how powerful his mythos is, that people still believe him to be or have been some kind of engineer or something. He's a fucking racist nepo baby. He's never done a single useful thing in his life. He wasn't the sole individual involved in creating PayPal (and was entirely unrelated in turning it into the successful business it became), he didnt found tesla nor is he responsible for any of the technological developments it made (except for forcing his shitty charger design that notoriously breaks down and charges at half the speed that competitors do), he did not found SpaceX and by all metrics involved has been loathed by everyone at the company for the past decade for continuously committing workers rights violations and fostering a racist sexist and ableist work environment. The man has done nothing but waste people's time stoking his ego and sexually abusing a slew of employees for the past 2 and a half decades.

[-] tyler@programming.dev 7 points 2 months ago

They removed their lidar sensors after the prices had already come down.

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[-] sickofit@lemmy.today 24 points 2 months ago

This represents the danger of expecting driver override to avoid accidents. If the driver has to be prepared enough to take control in an accident like this AT ALL TIMES, then the driver is required to be more engaged then they would be if they were just driving manually, because they have to be constantly anticipating not just what other hazards (drivers, pedestrians,…) might be doing, they have to be anticipating in what ways their own vehicle may be trying to kill them.

[-] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Absolutely.

I've got a car with level 2 automation, and after using it for a few months, I can say that it works really well, but you still need to be engaged to drive the car.

What it is good at... Maintaining lanes, even in tricky situation with poor paint/markings. Maintaining speed and distance from the car in front of you.

What it is not good at... Tricky traffic, congestion, or sudden stops. Lang changes. Accounting for cars coming up behind you. Avoiding road hazards.

I use it mostly like an autopilot. The car takes some of the monotonous workload out of driving, which allows me to move my focus from driving the car to observing traffic, other drivers, and road conditions.

[-] harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 2 months ago

Full Self-Destruct

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[-] LadyAutumn 21 points 2 months ago

I am never getting into a self driving car. I don't understand why we are investing money into this technology when people can already drive cars on their own, and we should be moving towards robust public transportation systems anyway. A waste of time and resources to... what exactly? Stare at your phone for a few extra minutes a day? Work from home and every city having robust electric transit systems is what the future is supposed to be.

[-] underline960@sh.itjust.works 18 points 2 months ago

Back when I still believed, I was excited because I wanted get in my car and take a 90-minute nap until I arrived at work.

With public transportation, you can only be half-asleep or you'll miss your stop.

[-] beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 2 months ago

I used to dream of watching a movie then falling asleep in bed while my car drove the 8 hours to my folks' house.

But I'd want that beast to be bristling with sensors of every kind. None of this "cameras only" idiocy.

Someday. Maybe.

[-] cestvrai@lemm.ee 11 points 2 months ago

I have a 45 minute high speed train commute to a busy end-of-line station. I can sleep, read, work, or just stare out the window and think.

Same commute is probably twice as long by car during rush hour.

[-] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 14 points 2 months ago

I'm not a fan of self driving cars, but saying that people are able to drive cars is a stretch.

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[-] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 7 points 2 months ago

Ditto! They were about 1 foot from hitting the tree head on rather than glancing off, could have easily been fatal. Weirdly small axises of random chance that the world spins on

[-] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 months ago

I still don't understand what made it happen. I kept watching shadows and expecting it to happen earlier.

[-] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 6 points 2 months ago

It makes no damn sense! There were worse shadows. it was totally unpredictable

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[-] atmorous@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

For no reason?

They are running proprietary software in the car that people don't even know what is happening in background of. Every electric car needs to be turned into an open source car so that the car cannot be tampered with, no surveillancing, etc etc

Everyone should advocate for that because the alternative is this with Tesla. And I know nobody wants this happening to other car manufacturers cars as well

[-] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 months ago

I have visions of Elon sitting in his lair, stroking his cat, and using his laptop to cause this crash. /s

[-] nyan@lemmy.cafe 10 points 2 months ago

Why would you inflict that guy on a poor innocent kitty?

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[-] itisileclerk@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

Why someone will be a passenger in self-driving vehicle? They know that they are a test subjects, part of a "Cartrial" (or whatever should be called)? Self-Driving is not reliable and not necessery. Too much money is invested in something that is "Low priority to have". There are prefectly fast and saf self-driving solutions like High-speed Trains.

[-] otacon239@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

I fear the day I’m on the receiving end of a “glitch.” It’s ridiculous that anyone can think these are safe after how many of these videos I’ve seen.

[-] beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 2 months ago

As a motorcyclist... Yeah.

[-] xenomor@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

There’s an obvious reason. It’s a fucking Tesla.

[-] LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Kill me” it said in a robotic voice that got slower, glitchier, and deeper as it drove off the road.

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[-] tfm@europe.pub 7 points 2 months ago

"I'm confident that Save full self driving (SFSD) will be ready next year"

[-] rational_lib@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

To be fair, that grey tree trunk looked a lot like a road

[-] LePoisson@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

It's fine, nothing at all wrong with using just camera vision for autonomous driving. Nothing wrong at all. So a few cars run off roads or don't stop for pedestrians or drive off a cliff. So freaking what, that's the price for progress my friend!

I'd like to think this is unnecessary but just in case here's a /s for y'all.

[-] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 6 points 2 months ago

GPS data predicted the road would go straight as far as the horizon. Camera said the tree or shadow was an unexpected 90 degree bend in the road. So the only rational move was to turn 90 degrees, obviously! No notes, no whammies, flawless

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