"It marks the second incident in two months involving a Tesla’s near miss-with a train while utilising its driver assistance system."
You can tell Tesla is close to "solving self-driving" because they are down to the tough edge cases like *checks notes* trains
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Earlier this year I was supposed to go watch the trial brought by the parents of Walter Huang, who died in 2018 when his Tesla on Autopilot thought the "gore" between two lanes was a lane and slammed him into a barrier. Tesla settled that rather than further reveal how crude these systems are.
You are trusting your life to a system that thinks "well, two lines roughly that distance apart on what is not explicitly not driveable space is probabilistically a lane, so let's just lock onto that and see where it takes us" and yeah sometimes those two lines are fucking railroad tracks.
The bullshit part of this is that Tesla absolutely buys map data as an input for these systems, so the "excuse" (it isn't one!) that they are just doing everything with computer vision isn't even valid. If you can buy traffic data you can goddamn well buy map data to validate the ODD, scum!
Until quite recently, my phone would tell me to take a "side street" off the FDR parkway on Manhattan's East Side, to get to the Holland Tunnel. The "side street" was a fish market lane some 50 below the elevated parkway. If a phone can't get it right, I'll never trust one of Elmo's death mobiles.
While it's good it's fixed, we (the general public) should NOT be anyone's Map editors, cartographers, and in the case of "GenAI" its Data Scientists applying tags and weights to data.
I used to drive for Uber and door dash and the nav would try to get me to do some seriously goober shit. With all the info they steal and all the input of people trying to correct maps, they still fuck up. We’re so far from being to safely have self-driving cars.
In my experience, these navigators are terrible with Chicago's lower Wacker drive because the GPS gets hella confused about which vertical road layer you're on
