In case you were worried about the roads being too safe, you can rest easily knowing that Teslas will be rolling out with unsupervised “Full Self Driving” in a couple days.
It doesn’t seem to be going great, even in supervised mode. This one couldn’t safely drive down a simple, perfectly straight road in broad daylight :( Veered off the road for no good reason. Glad nobody got badly hurt.
We analyze the onboard camera footage, and try to figure out what went wrong. Turns out, a lot. We also talk through how camera-only autonomous cars work, Tesla’s upcoming autonomous taxi rollout, and how AI hallucinations figure into everything.
Aurora Innovation already has 20 trucks on a highway in Texas as a pilot program. Unlike Tesla’s design, they don’t rely on cameras and have LIDAR/RADAR all over the place.
I’m actually research Aurora right now for another piece.
Much better technical setup than Tesla. Tesla isn’t even trying to apply their consumer FSD tech to their semi product.