edatoakrun
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C&D not impressed with AP's progress:
For example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxAoS4VvpjQ&feature=youtu.be
https://www.caranddriver.com/features/where-are-autonomous-cars-right-now-four-systems-tested-featureWhere Are Autonomous Cars Right Now? Four Systems Tested
We go hands-off in four vehicles you can buy today to understand the current state of automated technology and why progress won't come easily.
...A year after its debut, Tesla’s Enhanced Autopilot still offers no perceivable enhancement over the first-generation Autopilot. Compared with the original, the second-generation hardware suite employs four times as many cameras, ultrasonic sensors with double the range, and 40 times the computing power, yet Enhanced Autopilot shipped in October 2016 without fundamental abilities such as self-steering and adaptive cruise control because Tesla was still developing the software. All the sensors in the world can’t guide a car if the computer can’t make sense of the world, and Tesla took a temporary backward step when it brought Autopilot development in-house after an ugly public breakup with Mobileye, the supplier behind the original Autopilot.
By this past August, when we shepherded a $146,200 Model S P100D around Southern California, Enhanced Autopilot operated at the same level as the first-gen system, both according to Tesla and our own observations. The self-steering algorithm is no more certain or reliable than the earlier version we lived with in our long-term 2015 Tesla Model S. The technology that oozed possibility two years ago now simply feels incomplete, especially since Enhanced Autopilot makes the same unsettling mistakes as its predecessor did—mistakes that suggest a Tesla can’t always make sense of its environment.
Autopilot can cover hundreds of miles flawlessly or it can make a dozen errors in as many miles. In either case, we’re always caught off guard when the system makes an abrupt steering input that attempts to yank the Model S out of its lane without warning...
For example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxAoS4VvpjQ&feature=youtu.be