• PlagueShip@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    If I worked at Tesla, I would very much be doing a crappy job and slipping bad ideas into what looks like good code. The Lord’s work.

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    12 days ago

    I’m reading the comments about this video, and I think people are missing the point.

    It’s not about the Telsa running into the kid. It’s about the Tesla completely ignoring the FLASHING FUCKING STOP SIGN at the side of the bus, which resulted in it hitting the kid dummy.

    This could have been a pedestrian crossing, railroad stop, intersection, etc.

    These vehicles aren’t “smart” and should not be allowed on the road. Any idiot can have greater awareness than a Tesla.

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      11 days ago

      Yeah, it might kill the kid, it might not.

      Im still gonna stick to my ford F50000 Fleshreaper (BLOOD FOR THE CAR GOD!™) driven by a good old fashioned human to get the job done.

      Besides, it avoids the whole mess of theological issues about who gets moloch’s love.

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      11 days ago

      Oh, now I get it. Didn‘t know it’s not allowed to pass the bus even when it’s on the other side of the street. In our country we teach the kids to not run across the street when they get out of the bus.

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        11 days ago

        Kids will do stupid things sometimes, no avoiding that. In Germany you can pass a stopped bus on the other side of the road, but if it has its hazards on, you can’t go faster than walking speed.

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    11 days ago

    I’ll give you my uneducated findings: self driving cars are not ready.

    I doubt they will ever be really ready, they’ll eventually be considered “ready enough” no software will always work without flaws. When that software controls a car a minor flaw might mean 20 deaths.

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        10 days ago

        Comparing self driving cars to American driving standards is kinda a moot point because the american safety standards are so low that death and injury is considered the cost of doing business.

        I’d be curious to see how well waymo performs compared to a country with far safer road designs and drivers that are better trained and respect rules of the road more frequently.

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        11 days ago

        Way is also operating in a fairly small fixed area that is highly mapped.

        Not saying that’s a bad thing, they are doing things the right way, slowly and cautiously.

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        11 days ago

        Waymo cars use much better technology than Tesla.

        Nobody is disputing that a machine that is never distracted and has reaction times down to fractions of a second would make a better driver than even the most skilled human, but Tesla’s FSD hardware and software aren’t there yet and probably never will be.

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      10 days ago

      40.000 deaths by traffic accident by year (in the US). Only 20 deaths would be a major improvement. Obviously “cars” is a highly irrational discussion though.

      And it’s not just the victims who could be spared their lives, it’s also the mental toll on those who kill people on accident. Blaming it on a flaw in the software that can be improved and flaws permanently fixed is great.

      I say let the mechanized reduced slaughter begin!

    • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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      11 days ago

      I’m a school bus driver and this year we finally got the automatic cameras that catch people going past our red flashers and stop signs. My camera has captured about two to three drivers per day doing this. I would have rather had the automatic machine guns but the camera is a fine second choice.

      Edit: the funniest thing I’ve had happen with the camera so far is one person that came flying past my reds, noticed the lights and stop sign as they were passing me, slammed on their brakes and then backed up past me again while mouthing “I’m so sorry” to me. Yes, they received two tickets for this - and I had nothing to do with it as the cameras are completely automated.

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            11 days ago

            Do people in the US just get away with not paying tickets?

            Over here, if you don’t pay fines, it will get escalated until the point of seizure, and if you have nothing else to seize, they will take your car.

            Not paying isn’t really an option.

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              11 days ago

              Apparently, the issue with mail-in tickets specifically is that while the camera can catch the license plate number, it can’t really prove who was driving the car. So whereas an in-person ticket from a cop for passing a school bus will result in points on your license, a mail-in ticket from a camera like this won’t. The same problem applies to people that just don’t pay the mail-in tickets - the state doesn’t really know who to go after specifically.

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      12 days ago

      The only difference is that a driver would get out of their car, check for damage to their vehicle, and then get mad at the kid! /s

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        7 days ago

        That makes sense, Tesla use real driver data to train the cars. The cars ignore the traffic controls humans ignore, follows the rules humans follow

        They try to fix bad behaviour, but I bet there haven’t been enough human driven Teslas illegally passing school buses and having a collision for Tesla to notice that FSD ignores a rule it shouldn’t

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    11 days ago

    It’s fine, they’ll fix these issues in time for the robotaxi rollout ten years from now.

    What’s that? They’re planning on launching the robotaxis at the end of this month? Well then.

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    11 days ago

    Didn’t I just read this like a few weeks ago? But there’s a Jun 15 date in the article. So did this happen again?

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      11 days ago

      It’s the same story making the rounds.

      Edit: They also did it in Austin and somewhere else, so same situation in 2 different spots, generating like 4-5x the stories as each one gets repeated in the news cycle

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    11 days ago

    Well there is the problem right there, FSD shouldn’t be doing these tests in the first place! How else is Tesla supposed to get their amazing cyber taxi out of it has to follow all these dumb rules?

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      11 days ago

      That’s shrimply not true. The numbers Tesla releases are heavily cooked.

      Had a quick look around but I didn’t manage to find any numbers that weren’t either using Tesla’d numbers, or guessing.

      But it’s pretty well known that FSD sucks (have been in a car using it … terrifying af) and that it’ll turn itself off before an accident to pass accountability to the driver.

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        11 days ago

        I love how this keeps getting repeated by everyone everywhere

        it’ll turn itself off before an accident to pass accountability to the driver.

        But both Tesla (5 seconds) and the NHSTA (30 seconds) count any incident where a L2 system was on before the accident as having happened with the system active. So no, they do not use it for that purpose.

        You know that video going around a few weeks ago where some dude with FSD on darted across the rode into a tree? Well, he got the cars data, and it turns out it was disabled due to enough torque on the wheel which is one of the ways you disable it. He probably nudged the wheel too hard by mistake and disabled it, or there was a mechanical failure which disabled it, but the accident counted as FSD in the report he got from Tesla as ON even though it was OFF at the time of the accident when he started going out of his lane.

        So please just stop it with that nonsense.

        • TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works
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          11 days ago

          what about this one? https://youtu.be/V2u3dcH2VGM

          I don’t know anything about self driving, but I can’t imagine why it would turn off right before a crash instead of keeping the breaks held

          (also I know the drivers is a total idiot and it’s 100% their fault, I just want to know why it turned off)

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            7 days ago

            I imagine the driver was startled and pressed the brake or turned the steering wheel, either of which will cancel FSD

          • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world
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            10 days ago

            Which part don’t you like?

            I could source the crash report and a video explaining what likely happened, but if you simply don’t believe that Tesla truly stands by the 5s rule in their self reported data even with the crash report, then that’s another matter entirely.