Womp womp

Elon Musk is a nazi.
- Someone with a better singing voice than me needs to remix this classic.
  https://youtu.be/C44Zk6yFsso

AP aside, worst car manufacturer.
- Also, the owner is a Nazi.

I see an opportunity to target Teslas exclusively
- Dunno man, I don't want to risk the lives of those in normal cars. Just one bad day on an overworked guy at night and you'll have the same issue.

I was just watching a youtube video with humans literally walking into murals this same way.

Not defending Tesla or anything but let's not pretend like the majority of people on the road looking at their phone would not have done the exact same thing
- Someone should make looking at your phone while driving illegal. Maybe even slap it with a catchy name like "distracted driving" and make the issue a whole big deal.
- You're not wrong with the comparison, but the whole point of the computer having control over the vehicle is that this doesn't happen, despite the driver's abject negligence.
- Maybe they should be a responsible driver and look at the road instead or better yet take public transit.
  
  Would be nice, but i live in reality unfortunately
- Tell me you are twelve without telling me you are twelve.

People are arguing about autopilot being disabled during the drive, but even if it was, the emergency braking system should tried to do something.
- Why would it? It sees a road in front of itself, the whole car is built + programmed to go by what it sees, as an image.
  The car is doing exactly what it is built to do. It just so happens that "safety of road traffic" is not among the things it is built for, and explicitly so.
  
  I think it's a good example of how vastly over hyped a lot of AI stuff is though. Any person could tell that that was a wall from hundreds of feet away. You can even tell in the video and it would be more obvious in real life with actual depth perception.
  The entire problem with AI are corner cases. This is just taking that corner case to an absurd level. But it's not much different than the real world case of a Tesla vehicle getting confused on a highway if a billboard ad has a stop sign on it.
- Autopilot literally switched ITSELF off less than half a second from the moment of impact. it didn't try to stop the car, it just shut itself off so it couldn't be blamed.
  Imagine if someone whipped throwing knives at your back and then tried to argue "but your honor I was not holding any knives at the time of the stabbing"
  Fuck Tesla, fuck Elon, fuck every simp who shits excuses out their mouths for him
  (I mean, not YOU, you aren't doing any of those things; I'm just saying, those people. In general.)
  
  It's like a pilot bailing out of a plane and then claiming he was not responsible for the crash because he was in Vegas at the time the plane crashed.
  
  it's always been doing this. it's so that they claim AP wasn't active during the crash and evade liability
  
  AP is supposed to disable itself if a fault or abnormality is detected. Pretty much all advanced cruise control systems do this.
  I don’t think it’s fair to say the car was hiding evidence of AP being used unless it was intentionally logging the data in shady way. We’d need to see the logs of the car, and there are some roundabout ways for a consumer to pull those. That would probably be an interesting test for someone on YouTube to run.
  
  I think elon made sure that it switches off so he doesnt get liability that the autopilot is at fault.
- Mark did an interview with Philip Defranco and posted raw footage showing/explaining that Autopilot turned itself off instead of hitting the brakes.
  They also did two takes, it did the same thing both times. The first time, they just used a poster instead of a full foam wall. They decided to add the foam for a better visual once they realized it would just happily plow through it.
  Finally there's some argument of Autopilot vs FSD; but both rely on the same cameras and should have at least tried to brake. The LIDAR car braked and it was just using emergency braking, no self driving at all.
- It shows they didn't even watch the video. The only reason Mark used autopilot was because without it the car failed the simplest test.
  The test was with a kid being in the middle of the street and Tesla didn't even stop in time.
  https://youtu.be/IQJL3htsDyQ?t=9m38s
  
  It shows they didn't even watch the video.
  Of course they didn't. Musk fanboys are an echo chamber of morons worshipping a Nazi oligarch. They're quick to react, and they dismiss evidence and facts if it doesn't suit their narrative.
- I watched some Tesla-sympathetic youtuber for balance and here are the key points brought up:
  He had a death grip on the wheel (because y'know, he knew he was going to crash). Exerting enough force over time on the steering wheel disables autopilot, because the system assumes you want to manually override what it's doing.
  FSD apparently is much more capable, but this Tesla only had the common AutoPilot turned on. Despite having FSD available (Mark apparently claimed he didn't know he could turn it on without adding a destination)
  Mark might have some sort of sponsorship deal with the LIDAR company featured in the video, which is why LIDAR was shown in a much better light (e.g it was shown stopping for a dummy behind the water spray, but in reality a LIDAR based system would just brake for the water spray itself)
  Now all of those might be true, but you're also correct in that the emergency braking system should be operational even when AP is disabled. Unless the system malfunctioned (just having a dirty camera is enough). I know my Subaru throws out the adaptive cruise ALL the time. Stupid camera based system. You'd think it's better off because the cameras are at the top of the windshield, compared to most cars front grille mounted radars, but nah, it just keeps turning off.
  
  They are free to peer review the test and do it with all the stuff enabled.
  That is how science works.
  But I doubt they will, since this is an inherent problem with using camera vision only. Not with the software of the car. And they most likely know it.
  
  Even without the fanboys justifications, what did this test prove that the others didn't, since it didn't mimic a real world scenario like the tests where the tesla demolished the kid? I've driven through fog and lights and heavy rain, but have yet to encounter an unexpected Wile E Cayote wall in the road.
  
  If nothing else, Mark did say that the company LiDAR supplied the car, but that's it, they had no say in the test, didn't give him any money, apparently they did put the video up on their site for a bit, but took it down either because it looked bad given the backlash, or because Mark told them to take it down as it did go against their agreement.
  Of course he could have lied about the spo sponsorship, but he said he's fine with a lawsuit, so that would be a bold strategy.
- on a tesla, no way.

I love that they had pre-cut the styrofoam wall in a cartoony hole shape because they knew it was going to happen.
- From following video with raw footage they initially used a poster, but seeing that Tesla would just plow through it they built the styrofoam wall for a better effect.
- With the visual there's no way it would not have. It's not hard to foresee.
- They also didn't need to put an actually wall behind the photo and destroy the Tesla, but why not?
  
  Pretty sure that tesla is in fine condition. It's styrofoam, odds are the car didn't even get a scratch.
  
  How would the photo stand up without some kind of wall?

It's a Mark Rober video.

This is from Mark Robers YouTube Channel.
Credit where credit is due.
Mark Robers is fucking awesome, btw. He does all sorts of fun STEM things and keeps it interesting for kids and adults.
- Also they explicitly endorsed buying Tesla's still for they are good enough.
  
  Did he in the video?
- I also like how this particular video pissed off Tesla AND Disney.
- I guess credit is due, but with a basic understanding of the technology, I would be surprised if it did stop. Seems like a very set up and timed thing he's done just as a fuck you to Elon.
  Which Elon deserves, he's a fucking flog. I just didn't think the video was that impressive.
  
  Well the set up is "Some rich fucker was idiot enough to dictate his company should not install LIDAR, no matter how strictly superior it'd be to do so".
  So I dunno. We could ask Melon Husk why he set that up, but I doubt he'll reply. All Mark Robers did is observe the effect of the setup of Edolf Muskler. You're right of course in so far that there's not much to the video then, and I faintly remember there was a case a lot of years ago where a Tesla drove into a sky-blue truck because coming up on a crest it expected to only see hill, which matched the color of said truck.
  
  One of the tests from that video, the Tesla passed and I was honestly surprised it could. Can't remember if it was heavy fog or bright oncoming lights.
  Either way, yeah, LIDAR is far more capable and beat the Tesla in every test. Incredibly foolish to go camera-only but hey, that's Elon.
  
  It's certainly possible, although harder. Parallax effects should be visible in a real road, which it wouldn't be in a painting of a road.
  But it doesn't track how the image changes as it moves, so Teslas can't catch that.
- Like promote Palmer Luckeys AI military company, Anduril?
  
  which is backed by THIEL who is obsessed with LOTR spying references.

You know, with how distracted your average Tesla driver is, I'm pretty sure this would trick them even with them "driving" with AP on.
- You mean without AP on?
  
  I mean clearly it makes no difference but yeah, lol

ACME electric car.
- Pyrotechnics included.

FSD was promised but never delivered because they need lidar for rain/snow/etc weather.
- The FSD promise was mostly just market manipulation. Sure they might actually get it done at some point. But the time line they proposed was just a scam. And it worked seeing the market cap.
- My old m3 has lidarr, but the fucker shut it off because he's an epic nazi fucker.
  
  lidarr
  Pirate detected
  
  i was confused that you meant a BMW M3. I owned one for a few years. I guess less common than Model 3's

It's weird, an optical sensor should fall for this, but LiDAR detects objects in 3D.
- Teslas famously don't use lidar because Musk declared that cameras were good enough. Reality disagrees, but reality owns no shares of Tesla.
  
  Musk declared that cameras were good enough
  And then disabled existing lidar sensors in teslas, so his team could just focus on camera vision only
- Yea, to my understanding Tesla does not use LiDAR and that's the issue. They just use cameras I think. Other people posted videos in this thread: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IQJL3htsDyQ
  I can't be bothered to care/watch anything Tesla related, but apparently the lack of lidar is the thing being tested.
  
  The first ten minutes is him "sneaking" in a small lidar unit to Disneyland be using it to make 3d models of the ride path. That's pretty fun.
  
  Elon musk dint want lidar because it cost too much, any tesla before 2018 had it, but it introduced update to brick all off them.
- A decent camera only vision system should still be able to detect the wall. I was actually shocked at the fact that Tesla failed this test so egregiously.
  If you use two side by side cameras you can determine distance to a feature by calculating the offset in position of the feature between the two camera images. I had always assumed this was how Tesla planned to achieve camera only FSD, but that would make too much sense.
  https://www.intelrealsense.com/stereo-depth-vision-basics/
  Even if they wanted to avoid any redundant hardware and only go with one camera for each direction, there is still a chance they could've avoided this kind of issue if they used structure through motion, but that's much harder to do if the objects could be moving.
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure_from_motion

I used to bullseye womp rats in my T-16 back home, they’re not much bigger than 2 meters.

And people are pissy about it. Tesla sucks. Grow up

I mean, I get the purpose of the test but I'm pretty sure a human would crash too.
- then you don't get the purpose of this test
- The other self-driving car didn't though
- Humans with two working eyes can tell the difference between a flat painted surface and a 3D world. Humans with only one eye might crash, though.
  
  I doubt someone without depth perception would crash either. They'd notice the straps on the side, and things not being the exact colour shade. Might think it was a big piece of glass set up on the road, but that wouldn't be something you'd just plow through.
  
  Results may vary depending on the alcohol currently running in the human blood.
  One of the things I am advocate for self driving cars is that they cannot get drunk and drive.
  Edit: aaah yes, Lemmy, downvoted per telling that people drink and drive. Classic Lemmy.