Ruling clears way for lawsuit brought against company over fatal crash in 2019 in which Stephen Banner was killed near Miami

Judge finds ‘reasonable evidence’ Tesla knew self-driving tech was defective::Ruling clears way for lawsuit brought against company over fatal crash in 2019 in which Stephen Banner was killed near Miami

  • PlasmaDistortion@lemm.eeEnglish
    54·
    11 months ago

    It’s asinine that Tesla is trying to do full self driving without actually using some sort of LiDAR. Using video/photos to judge distance is just unreliable and stupid.

    • xanu@lemmy.worldEnglish
      341·
      11 months ago

      but it’s MUCH cheaper, so keeping with every other shitty idea he’s ever had, Musk was REALLY banking on Tesla engineers to make a crazy breakthrough so he could reap billions in reward.

      It worked at SpaceX because of a perfect concoction of all the best rocket scientists and engineers wanting to work at SpaceX, since it was one of the only space programs not owned by a government and could push the boundaries, the technology being possible and wildly practical to implement, and massive government subsidies.

      Tesla is in the car market, which is notoriously competitive and, while they do have massive government subsidies, they don’t have the best engineers and musk’s insistence that they “figure out” how to shove autonomous driving into a medium that simply doesn’t provide enough information drives even the better engineers away.

      I really wish my government would stop funding his ego and let his fantasy projects die already.

    • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.comEnglish
      103·
      11 months ago

      With two offset cameras, depth is reliable, especially using a wide angle and narrow angle lens offset. This is what OpenPilot does with the Comma 3 (FOSS self driving).

      Radar is better, but some automotive radar seems to only be great at short ranges (from my experience with my fork of OP in combination with radar built into a vehicle).

        • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.comEnglish
          35·
          11 months ago

          Do you work in the field? Sun/fog/etc are all things that can be handled with exposure adjustments. It’s one place a camera is more versatile than our eyes.

          All that being said my experience is from indirect work on OpenPilot, not from Tesla. So a system that’s not commonly used by the average person, and does not have claims of commercial FSD.

    • Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      7·
      11 months ago

      Sitting in a Tesla and watching it try to understand anything other than highway driving is so unnerving. It gets so much wrong about other cars’ direction of travel that it’s not too shocking one occasionally is plowed into or plows into someone else

    • topinambour_rex@lemmy.worldEnglish
      55·
      11 months ago

      Using video/photos to judge distance is just unreliable and stupid.

      All depend how powerful is the computer managing the datas. A human brain does the job by example.

        • topinambour_rex@lemmy.worldEnglish
          32·
          11 months ago

          But how many of those bad records are due to their eyes ?

          Most causes of those bad records are bad decisions( checking phone, speeding, cutting lanes, etc). It is rarely due to bad sight.

          The issue with lidar is bad weather. If it rains, or is foggy, it doesn’t work, or give weird result.

          Apparently there is some radar which can see through bad weather.

      • Chaotic Entropy@feddit.ukEnglish
        161·
        11 months ago

        I thought the whole point was to overcome human shortcomings, not just make a worse version of a human driver. Humans don’t even rely purely on visual cues.