Fired Tesla Employee Posts New Video Of Full Self-Driving Running A Red Light
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A former Tesla employee who was fired for showing the limits of FSD on social media says he's speaking to the feds about the incident.
  • abraham_linksys@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1206·
    11 months ago

    We need to build special roads so self driving cars can navigate properly.

    You could even connect self driving cars together, by letting the front car pull them the others could save their batteries.

    And with these “trains” of self driving cars pulling each other, you wouldn’t have to build the self driving car roads very wide, they could just run on narrow “tracks” for the wheels.

    Then we’d have more space for human stuff instead of car stuff like roads and parking lots everywhere.

    He’s done it again. Elon Musk is a god damn genius.

    • amanneedsamaid@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      874·
      11 months ago

      Bill the manufacturer 100%, IMO. Thats why I think self driving cars beg an unanswerable legal question, as when the car drives for you, why would you be at fault? How will businesses survive if they have to take full accountability for accidents caused by self-driving cars?

      I think its almost always pointless to hold back innovation, but in this case I think a full ban on self driving cars would be a great move.

      • stanleytweedle@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        11 months ago

        I think its almost always pointless to hold back innovation, but in this case I think a full ban on self driving cars would be a great move.

        I agree on both points. Also I think it’s important to characterize the ‘innovation’ of self driving as more social-economic than technological.

        The component systems- sensing, processing, communications, power, etc- have a wide range of engineering applications and research and development will inevitably continue no matter the future of self-driving. Self driving only solves a very particular social-economic-technological issue that only exists because of how humans historically chose to address the same issue with older technology. Self driving is more of a product than a ‘technology’ in my book.

        So my point there is that I don’t think a ban on full self driving really qualifies as ‘holding back innovation’ at all. It’s just telling companies not to develop a specific product. Hyperbolic example but nobody would say banning companies from creating a nuclear powered oven was ‘holding back innovation’. If anything forcing us to re-envision human transportation without integrating into legacy requirements advances innovation more than just trying to use AI to solve the problems created by using humans to solve the original problem of how to move humans around in cars.

        • amanneedsamaid@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          4·
          11 months ago

          I see it the same way, but an incredible amount of people I’ve discussed this with say that its stupid to hold back technological innovation “like self-driving cars”. Its an unnecessary piece of technology.

          I also just think the whole ethical complication is fucked. The way we have it now, every driver is responsible for their actions and no driver ever glitches out on the freeway (and if they do, they bear the consequences). Imagine a man’s wife and kids getting killed by a drunk driver vs a self-driving car. In one scenario you can clearly place blame, and take action in a much more meaningful way than just suing a car manufacturer.

        • sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz
          3·
          11 months ago

          I’m pretty sure there are autonomous cars driving around San Francisco, and have been for some time.

          EDIT: Here’s an uplifting story about San Francisco-ians(?) interacting with the self-driving cars.

      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        21·
        11 months ago

        The responsible party should be the owner of the vehicle, not the manufacturer or passenger. If a company runs an automated ride share service, for example, that company should be liable. Likewise if you own a car and use the self-driving feature, you are at fault it it goes wrong, so you should use it at your own risk.

        That said, for the owner to be truly responsible, they need ownership of the self-driving code, as well as diagnostics for them to be able to monitor it. If they don’t have that, do they truly own the car?

        That said, there’s nothing stopping a manufacturer or dealer from making a deal to cover self-driving fines.

        • amanneedsamaid@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          3·
          11 months ago

          Well exactly, I see no way that all the self driving source code will be FOSS (I don’t think corporations would ever willingly sign onto this). So the responsible party in the case of a malfunction should therefore be the company, because in a full self driving setup the occupant is not controlling the vehicle, and has no reasonable way to ensure the safety of the code.

          • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            22·
            11 months ago

            Which is why it should be dual responsibility. The owner of the vehicle chose to use the feature, so they have responsibility. If it malfunctions when the driver was following the instructions, the manufacturer has responsibility. Both are culpable, so they should share responsibility.

      • DauntingFlamingo@lemmy.mlEnglish
        0·
        11 months ago

        The most basic driving like long stretches of highway shouldn’t be banned from using AI/automated driving. The fast paced inner city driving should be augmented but not fully automatic. Same goes for driving in inclement weather: augmented with hard limits on speed and automated braking for anything that could result in a crash

        Edit: I meant this statement as referring to the technology in it’s current consumer form (what is available to the public right at this moment). I fully expect that as the technology matures so will the percentage of incidents decline. We are likely to attain a largely driverless society one day in my lifetime

    • schroedingershat@lemmy.world
      English
      192·
      11 months ago

      Nah. Give tesla the same number of points everyone else gets on their license. If the company runs out, no more cars controlled by tesla on the roads…

      • MeshPotato@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        11 months ago

        We already had that in the 70s and 80s. Those were RoRo trains.

        You put your car on a drive on ramp. Go into the comfy cabin, maybe even a sleeper cabin for over night journeys. Get out at the other end, drive your car down the carrier and explore the area that you’ve journeyed to with the vehicle that you own. Look up the 89s ABC film about the Ghan railway closing down.

        I live in Australia and love seeing the distant from my home centre of tue country. Unfortunately long distance trains here have become a lifestyle luxury experience rather than transportation. Same goes for bicycles amd motorcycles.

    • Piecemakers@lemmy.worldEnglish
      263·
      11 months ago

      I dunno. I could go for one about him launching himself to Mars in a carbon-fiber & titanium capsule, piloting via gamepad, ya know? Especially if he brought Bezos, the Koch bros. & Gates along. 🤷🏼‍♂️ It’d save time at least on setting up the ol’ woodchipper down the road, ya know?

  • Arotrios@kbin.social
    14·
    11 months ago

    JFC that’s frightening. It blew that red at about 30mph, didn’t even really slow down except for the curve.

    • killall-q@kbin.social
      191·
      11 months ago

      Because the car didn’t recognize it as a red light, probably due to all the green lights that were facing a similar direction.

      The issue is not the speed at which it took the turn, but that it cannot distinguish which traffic lights are for the lane the car is in.

      • NotMyOldRedditName@kbin.social
        5·
        11 months ago

        If you’ve watched any of their recent AI talks, they talk a lot about these unusual and complex intersections. Lane mappings in complexe intersections being one of the hardest problems. Currently they’re taking data from numerous cars to reconstruct intersections like this to then turn into a simulation and train it so it learns more and more complex things.

        There really are only 2 options.

        Solve this with vision and AI, or solve this with HD maps.

        But it has to be solved.

      • SheeEttin@lemmy.world
        3·
        11 months ago

        If it sees red and green, it should take the safe option and stop until it is sure or the driver takes over.

        • NotMyOldRedditName@kbin.social
          4·
          11 months ago

          If it’s unsure, but for whatever reason this failed, it seemed sure.

          I’ve had the car slow in unsure situations before so it can and does.

          It just got this one very wrong for some reason

    • drekly@lemmy.world
      English
      101·
      11 months ago

      It blows my mind they decided not to use LIDAR anymore. Of course it’s getting worse.

  • adhdplantdev@lemm.ee
    English
    72·
    11 months ago

    Man hackernews is full of people criticizing the poster saying that he should have disengaged the system so it learns completely missing the point that FSD should not be considered safe.

  • TGTX@lemmy.world
    English
    22·
    11 months ago

    Definitely an unusual intersection where one street looks like a diagonal merge into another, but the stoplight placement is bizarre as the driver can see two different light directions at the same time coming up on the approach.

  • rusticus1773@lemmy.mlEnglish
    01·
    11 months ago

    So sick of shit like this getting posted. Of course the software is not perfect. There are so many warnings about it not being independent of driver intervention it’s crazy. Yet here we are with the entire internet hating on Musk so much that we have to tear down the evolution of self driving cars, which is arguably the most complicated computing and programming problem in history. Bring on the downvotes but for the record, I think Musk is a douchebag but can separately appreciate the effort involved in the herculean task of programming cars that drive themselves.

    • Addv4@kbin.social
      1·
      11 months ago

      I think it’s not a case of the software not being perfect, but that they are actively breaking in live environments, where it is amazingly critical that they not break. If that is an issue, then they need to get to such a level of confidence were they don’t need to worry about breaking, which tesla is apparently not at currently.

  • AwkwardPenguin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    56·
    11 months ago

    To be fair, it’s a messy intersection with lots of traffic lights. I’m struggling to understand which one is the one to look at. However I’m finding hard to believe Tesla actually has the skills to unbeta this shit hole.

    • galaxies_collide@lemmy.worldEnglish
      91·
      11 months ago

      That’s the thing, if FSD isn’t advanced enough to handle tricky intersections no matter the circumstance, then it’s not ready for deployment.

  • PenguinJuice@kbin.social
    329·
    11 months ago

    He was prolly fired bc he couldn’t program the thing to stop at a red light.

    Also who knows when this footage was taken or if it was just test footage that has since been ironed out.

        • SpooneyOdin@lemmy.ml
          7·
          11 months ago

          Or you could - oh, I don’t know - read the article you are commenting on… it says he was a test operator and not a programmer.

          • PenguinJuice@kbin.social
            16·
            11 months ago

            Oh lol well then yeah, this is like releasing footage of a half baked game and claiming its buggy. Of course it is.

        • Chozo@kbin.social
          2·
          11 months ago

          That’s not how burden of proof works.

          Do you have information to back up what you said?

    • iByteABit [he/him]@lemm.ee
      3·
      11 months ago

      Just the fact that you think programming a car to stop at a red light is a one man task is enough to show how much you know about what you’re talking about

    • Rough_N_Ready@lemmy.world
      618·
      11 months ago

      If you had read the article you’d know his job was “advanced driver assistance systems test operator”. His job was to test the cars, not program them.