Tesla Preparing Autopilot 2 Test Deployment

[Megalith]

The next version of Autopilot is about to get rolled out to select Tesla vehicles for testing, which is definitely going to be stressed this time around due to the crash that occurred last year. While the final version of the software won’t be ready any time soon, the current hardware is fully ready for autonomous driving.

Musk says the update will roll out to a 1000-car strong test fleet on Monday, with the rest of the Tesla fleet running the update in “shadow mode” where the computer simulates what it would have done if active, and gives Tesla a chance to test the software in more conditions without taking physical control of vehicles. “If all looks good,” Musk says, they’ll switch from shadow to active mode for all cars by the end of this week. The company says the hardware is capable of supporting fully autonomous driving, but the software is still years away from a general release. However, the first goal is to bring “parity” between the Autopilot Hardware 1 and Hardware 2 sets.

 

[p.i.m.p]

twice as many accidents

 

[DeathFromBelow]

For as much crap as they get over this I think the reality is that they're far ahead of the competition. The old automakers held off and made excuses about Americans enjoying driving, but these 'autopilot' systems have the potential to reduce fatigue and improve safety while still giving you control. People want that.

 

[collegeboy69us]

twice as many accidents

As opposed to what? the shit I see every day on the road of texting teens, tailgaters, assholes who don't know how to merge or use a blinker, I'd take the autopilot any day of the week.

Here in most fhe US, proper training and licensing to operate a motor vehicle is an absolute joke. Go lookup how many billions of miles of autopilot data is out there and then correlate that to general statistics on human drivers and their accident/death rate, here ya go:
https://asirt.org/initiatives/informing-road-users/road-safety-facts/road-crash-statistics

Is the system perfect? not yet, but its far far better than your average human. Because the average human is a selfish idiot.

 

[Bootleg Usher]

Some asshole just ran a red light in front of me today. Defensive driving, paying attention to what he was doing even though I had a green light is what saved a collision from happening. If the assholes car drove itself it would probably do a better job, so I support it.

 

[piscian18]

Looking Forward to these things gaining sentience and going into MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE

 

[Derfman]

 

[M76]

twice as many accidents

Self driving cars can't come soon enough to finally shut up the naysayers.

Oh what am I thinking. They'll never shut up. If one accident involves a self driving car they'll say "I told you so" regardless of statistics that will show how much better they are than the average distracted driver.

 

[Derfman]

Self driving cars can't come soon enough to finally shut up the naysayers.

Oh what am I thinking. They'll never shut up. If one accident involves a self driving car they'll say "I told you so" regardless of statistics that will show how much better they are than the average distracted driver.

Just like anything, from alpha, beta to release. We are talking about a product in these times that will perfect itself and eventually have a small margin of error. We as humans love to have control over our fate and the fate of others. To relinquish this control isn't a question of putting faith into a reliable product, it's simply taking a part of our quality of life that we and our parents had taken for granted and enhancing it in a way that makes it less interactive.

People hate change - News at 10!

 

[hexamon]

Here in most fhe US, proper training and licensing to operate a motor vehicle is an absolute joke.

This is true. I don't live in the US now and I have never driven there but a few years ago I was living in the states and decided to get a drivers license. I had nothing in the US system at all and it had been a while since I last drove so I decided to get a learners permit, practice a bit and then apply for a real license. I applied for the permit and they gave me a full license. As far as they knew I could have never driven a car before. I didn't end up using it and left a couple months later but it seemed pretty weird to me.

 

[Krab]

I can't wait. Whether it's 3 years away or 30 years away. Traffic deaths will be reduced dramatically around the world and the mobility of large parts of society will increase.


I guess completely ignoring the hundred or so people that are killed on the road in the US every single day is convenient when you are trying to push a false narrative.