Soon we will have no one who can drive on their own.
I do not own a Tesla, but they call it “Full Self Driving SUPERVISED”.
“And then the Tesla blew by at full speed!“
The owner will be getting a ticket in the mail . School busses video violations now. The driver could have hit the brakes.
Low down dirty dog stuff, at this late date, not stopping dead in the street for the kids getting on or off a school bus.
It stinks to have to sit around when you’ve got places to go, but living in society has certain trade-offs and limitations.
For a self-driving Tesla to fail to detect a stopped school bus on the other side of the road is bad, bad juju.
And posted speed limits are for normal conditions, not raining/snowing/windy, etc.
You CAN get ticketed for speeding even while going the speed limit if the weather is bad enough.
And what happens in construction zones?
Thump Thump !
What was that Elon?
” That was X”
What you’re describing is bureaucratic lawyer mindset. As any low level functionary inside a bureaucratic organization will tell you, if you follow the rules with insane attention to detail, you can’t get in trouble. You can’t be blamed for anything.
Asking for software to use judgement is asking it to be sentient. No matter how well AI can fake an interaction and seem human, it can’t exercise judgment and no designer who doesn’t want a prison sentence or a career ending legal judgment would code anything like “judgment” into his software.
And whether or not you get a ticket for six miles per hour over the speed limit is a matter of the officer’s “judgement.” (Oh, and how far off he is from meeting his quota. I know they claim not to have quotas, but a high-ranking Florida Highway Patrol officer was fired for sending out a general email telling the ranks to meet their quota. Someone forwarded it to a reporter.)
Seems to me the author needs a little more HP in the vehicle if he/she was stuck behind the Tesla for 20 miles..
That's not a glitch: it's a MAJOR failure, if accurate (we are left to assume there's no mitigating circumstances involving the roadway architecture).
The consequences here? Killing children -- a 'bug' like that should generate a full-blown recall.
One of the best ways to have bad law changed is to start enforcing it.
The Tesla Full Self Driving feature allows the human driver to pick from several modes. One of those modes is to follow the speed limits.
Drivers are able to select a Maximum Speed Offset as much as 20%. For 55 mph that would be 11 mph, or a maximum speed of 66 mph.
The choice is up to the human driver.
https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/fsd-and-speed-limits.347703/
84 percent of my Tesla miles are in FSD mode.
I don’t know what model or year he was following, but mine stops for school buses and slows down for school zones.
I just listen to music while the car drives most of the time.
I set my driving style to chill mode. It’s like being in a good limo, quiet, smooth acceleration, great sound system. my only unexpected bump was when a squirrel darted out, froze, then zig zagged zigged. I think it was nuts. I’m still waiting to see the icon for gator in the road.
“”I am old enough that I don’t have to adapt (much) to the oncoming world of AI””
You are not alone! Adapt much!! Do we have a choice? We have to learn to stop yelling at AI over the phone when they go through their mindless routine and you have business you NEED to conduct and perhaps with a time restraint...Not a way you want to start your day...
Why don’t they make nice looking Teslas? Those things are butt ugly and there are millions of the white ones.
There have been more than a few self driving car incidents with school busses. I’ve been saying all along once there is a severe incident with an autonomous vehicle (like the autonomous trucks now in Texas) and a school bus people are going to take a hard look at this technology.
Older model Teslas have hardware that can’t fully take advantage of the new software as it gets updated. My Tesla saved the life of an idiot on a bike going up monitor pass in the Sierras. He was in the middle of the lane on a blind curve. I don’t know if I could have reacted as fast. In stop and go traffic on freeways where motorcycles pass narrowly between cars my Tesla sees them coming up and moves over in the lane. It makes occasional minor mistakes (mostly navigational) but overall it is an amazing system.
As was the case, I’m sure, for everybody on this forum, in order to get my license I had to pass a written test, and if I didn’t know what to do when approaching a stopped school bus with its lights flashing I would have flunked.
But apparently if you’re an AI self-driving protocol, whatever the machine-equivalent to such a written test would be does not exist, and you get the equivalent of your license just by being installed. I don’t like the state poking their nose into everything, but if I have to know the rules of the road I don’t see why my Tesla doesn’t have to.
A late model Tesla on the HD4 platform and the latest software will drive better than you can. It's looking in ALL directions ALL the time, and its reaction time is superhuman.
Tesla drivers in my area are fully obnoxious. My son tells me that they all previously owned a Leaf. Virtue signalers are just unholy manifestations from the dark side.
A boring report and I don’t believe it.
Media is full of anti Tesla anti Musk stories.
That last rocket test blew up at the very end by design.
Social media is loaded with stories: Space X rocket blows up during test!
Yeah he followed a Tesla but no pictures. No one reported the infraction.
Lots of people drive slow and you can set a cruise control on any car for any speed you want.
Not even remotely limited to a Tesla.
I've always been the "Mr. Safety" if the family, and I came away hoping that, in the future, my sons would have such vehicles.
It also occurred to me that a self-driving car might be a real boon for someone living alone being able to get to a hospital during a medical emergency. I'm sure we'll be hearing such stories in the future.