"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!
