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Self-Driving Tesla Nearly Hits Oncoming Train, Raises New Concern On Car's Safety

Craig Doty II, a Tesla owner, narrowly avoided a collision after his vehicle, in Full Self-Driving (FSD) mode, allegedly steered towards an oncoming train.

Nighttime dashcam footage from earlier this month in Ohio captured the harrowing scene: Doty's Tesla rapidly approaching a train with no apparent deceleration. He insisted his Tesla was in Full Self-Driving mode when it barreled towards the train crossing without slowing down.

werefreeatlast ,

Oh! As a token of ah....of...aah.. a knowledge mental acknowledgement, we the US people would like to gift this here Tesla to you all, Putin, and Iran leadership. You get a Tesla and you get a Tesla....and you get a Tesla!

Honytawk ,

https://i.imgur.com/ccksjT7.mp4

Jakeroxs ,

This is showing it works or no? I can't tell and there isn't audio, it seems like it would be stopped correctly.

SaltySalamander ,
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Definitely shows it working.

Jakeroxs ,

Yeah, I was thinking maybe the weird flashing lights on the screen was maybe being pointed to as not working right or something to that effect? Idk lol no context provided at all

ArtemisimetrA ,

Let them earn their Darwin awards

explodicle ,

I'd rather see some Free Market Darwinism™ in the form of a lawsuit.

ArtemisimetrA ,

Yeah I guess I'd be ok with that. I may have lost faith in our judicial system to get that shit done

nifty ,
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For now, cars need more than computer vision to navigate because right now adding cameras by themselves doesn’t help a car spatially orient itself in its environment. What might help? I think the consensus is that the cameras need to get a 360 deg view of the surroundings and the car needs a method for making sense of these inputs without that understanding being the focus of attention.

It seems Teslas do add sensors in appropriate locations to be able to do that, but there’s some disconnect in reconciling the information: https://www.notateslaapp.com/news/1452/tesla-guide-number-of-cameras-their-locations-uses-and-how-to-view. A multi-modal sensing system would bypass reliance on getting everything right via CV.

Think of you focusing on an object in the distance and moving toward it: while you’re using your eyes to look at it, you’re subconsciously computing relative distance and speed as you approach it. it’s your subconscious memory of your 3D spatial orientation that helps you make corrections and adjustments to your speed and approach. Outside of better hardware that can reconcile these different inputs, relying on different sensor inputs would make the most robust approach for autonomous vehicles.

Humans essentially keep track of their body in 3D space and time without thinking about it, and actually most multicellular organisms have learned to do this in some manner.

uebquauntbez ,

Hyperloops .... hype ... oops

sp3tr4l , (edited )

This is horrible!

Obviously the Tesla's cold gas thrusters must be malfunctioning! The Fully Autonomous Only Non Insane Car AutoPilot was clearly going to jump over the train Speed Racer style!

Thank goodness the driver realized the thruster failure light was on and was able to avoid the worst.

Edit: This is sarcasm! I hate using /s because I'd like to believe people can tell, but I guess not this time...

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