Senators rail against Tesla AI's apparent inability to detect train crossings
Senators rail against Tesla AI's apparent inability to detect train crossings
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Senators target Tesla FSD over rail crossing risks
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Is that a car? No way its too big. I must be hallucinating
Last Grok journal entry.
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"You're right to call me out. My bad! Let's try this again with a new driver."
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Man, most road vehicles can easily be called "murder machines", but Teslas are the first "suicide ride"!
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Did we not do enough capcha of railroad crossings? I keep failing the crosswalk ones, sort of concerning
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Found the Tesla AI bot.
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I just feel sorry for the trains.
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I've been driving with Tesla FSD since it launched. It's...okay. I've never had it blatantly try to drive me off the road, but it does make some really dumb decisions at intersections. Like it doesn't seem to understand that there's a right-turn only lane near my home. It also has recently started inching into intersections after stopping at red lights even though it correctly identifies that the lights are red.
All told, it's a net positive. I find myself able to focus more on my surroundings rather than just keeping the car in its lane. That said, I would never ever trust it to do anything without my hand on the wheel. I even have a real recurring nightmare where I'm somehow stuck in the backseat and can't reach the controls.
If Tesla set their goal at just decent driver assistance, I'd say they're very close. But there is no way current autopilot is going to be steering their autonomous taxis around.
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You're a lot braver than I am.
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It also has recently started inching into intersections after stopping at red lights even though it correctly identifies that the lights are red.
Haven't they said they train it on human Tesla drivers? My experience is that a lot of people do this, especially the assholes that seem to coalesce around Teslas, blocking the pedestrian crossing and making it difficult for me to cross with my wheelchair.
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Fun fact, my Nissan does an extremely good job at keeping me in my lane and not hitting the car in front of me, because that's all it claims to be able to do and doesn't try to pretend that's "full self-driving".
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But they won't do anything about it, so fuck them.
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I did a test drive in a Tesla, back in the before times, and I was psyched to try out the self driving until I actually talked to the guy about it and put it into action. It was fucking terrifying. Basically what it seemed like, from talking to him and observing it, was that it was the lane-following feature that a lot of cars had even back then, but also, if it ran into anything more complex than lane following it would "do its best" but no promises.
I quickly disabled it (for whatever stupid reason, I had waited until we were on the interstate to try) and left the experience with absolutely no desire to have a Tesla even if it had been in the cards financially.