With this kind of artillery on the road, Apple will have zero accidents
Pedestrians will swarm away like flies
(and so will customers)
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Apple's Fleet of Self-Driving Vehicles Has Almost Doubled Since January
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Pedestrians will swarm away like flies
(and so will customers)
LIDAR is used on most autonomous vehicles and would help. Of course the headlights should always be on at night for the benefit of both the car and nearby pedestrians. But if someone lunges in front of any moving vehicle, there is no response fast enough to avoid accidents. The very best case is for an autonomous vehicle to safely brake fractions of a second before any human driver could ever react.
Apple didn't advertise it, someone wrote a blog about it. Also, the update
Laws of physics don't change. No different than if someone steps in front a human driven car--you still need sufficient stopping distance. Preliminary investigation said it doesn't appear that human or not would have made any difference.
No, fact. They have absolutely no technology other car manufacturers don’t have access to. And they are way behind when it comes to ramping up production. Model 3 is still a mess and way behind.
With regard to the Uber car, the woman who was hit stepped in front of it suddenly leaving no room for stopping apparently.
https://www.ocregister.com/2018/03/...tepped-suddenly-in-front-of-self-driving-car/
Seems another one down to human stupidity rather than the autonomous systems.
https://www.ocregister.com/2018/03/...tepped-suddenly-in-front-of-self-driving-car/
Seems another one down to human stupidity rather than the autonomous systems.
Tesla is indeed in a precarious position. Losses would have been even greater had they not been selling credits to other manufacturers. They had an early lead in electric and autonomous, but difficulty in ramp up has allowed their much bigger competitors with huge production capacity to close gap.
The world of human drivers is not well-behaved. [It is more likely than not that everyone's daily commute has someone speeding and jockeying across lanes, without concern to others.]
This is a world where an AV needs to partake:
I say test those AVs in the Indian Subcontinent or Latin America (where traffic lights are treated as hints not to be taken seriously).
And then, only then, we will learn the tale of the AV tape.
This is a world where an AV needs to partake:
- speed signs and traffic lights disregarded blatantly,
- infrastructure decaying with neither markers nor working lights,
- city streets, or county dirt roads, with large potholes,
- people jaywalking and crossing randomly,
- weather (snow, sleet, ice) blocking pavement,
- ...
I say test those AVs in the Indian Subcontinent or Latin America (where traffic lights are treated as hints not to be taken seriously).
And then, only then, we will learn the tale of the AV tape.
Might want to read this:
https://seekingalpha.com/article/4108114-teslas-gross-margin-grossly-misleading
I do not think it means what you think it means. Anybody want a peanut?
Didn't Uber just kill their first pedestrian with their self driving cars yesterday? Talk about bad timing.
Even if the collision was unavoidable, this is very concerning:
“It’s possible that Uber’s automated driving system did not detect the pedestrian, did not classify her as a pedestrian, or did not predict her departure from the median,” Smith said in an email. “I don’t know whether these steps occurred too late to prevent or lessen the collision or whether they never occurred at all, but the lack of braking or swerving whatsoever is alarming and suggests that the system never anticipated the collision.”
I've said it before: this is a lot more difficult than what the companies think.
“It’s possible that Uber’s automated driving system did not detect the pedestrian, did not classify her as a pedestrian, or did not predict her departure from the median,” Smith said in an email. “I don’t know whether these steps occurred too late to prevent or lessen the collision or whether they never occurred at all, but the lack of braking or swerving whatsoever is alarming and suggests that the system never anticipated the collision.”
I've said it before: this is a lot more difficult than what the companies think.
Still want to know what their "go to market" strategy is given that Apple very rarely licenses their technology to anyone...
No, it’s not concerning. The guy blatantly says that he has no idea what the car did, that he has no idea about the distances, and that he has no idea about what happened in general. His are just hypotesis. Also, the guy is making a bold statement without ever defining its term. What does “anticipat[ed] the collision” means, exactly? And I mean exactly.
An investigation will provide information.
Not quite: https://www.greencarreports.com/new...ctric-cars-more-than-gm-but-fewer-than-nissan
In addition to Tesla 'only' selling 250k electric vehicles as of October 2017, not all of these models are autonomous-ready. Don't know that percentage, but either way, it's a fraction of your 'millions' estimate.
It means that from the data so far, it seems the car made no attempt to avoid the collision, no braking, no swerving. I'm not saying it should have avoided the collision, but if the systems had detected the danger, it should have taken action, even if it was too late. I mean, the human did detect a collision, the car did not and just carried on driving.
A human would try to avoid a collision just out of reflex, even if it is too late to actually make any difference.
I have a hard time believing that they program the systems to just carry on driving if it determines that it's too late to do anything anyways.
All these fancy radars and whatnots covering the car and allegedly sees way more than humans possibly can do should have been able to at least determine that a collision had occurred and stop the car asap.
