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by mslev 2649 days ago
Watching the video, '2019.5.15 - Try 2' is interesting. You can see the car moving normally, then it starts to follow the black crack in the road and moves to the right- at this moment, the white Nissan in front is blocking the white lines ahead where the lanes actually split.

Does AP use other cars as reference points, or just the road? Ideally in this situation it would be both: "The line has disappeared, and there's a new one now, but that car went over it". Instead it seems to just be following whatever lines it can see. Does that make sense?

Note- not at all defending the AP behavior here. Just thinking out loud.

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>Watching the video, '2019.5.15 - Try 2' is interesting. You can see the car moving normally, then it starts to follow the black crack in the road and moves to the right- at this moment, the white Nissan in front is blocking the white lines ahead where the lanes actually split.

It seems like it's failing in different ways:

Try 1- Toughest to tell, but it looks like it failed to recognize any lines. Kept going straight which was at the barrier. Hard to tell if the car would have recovered.

Try 2- Looks like the car tried to go left into the closed lane. Seems like an error in detecting the barriers closing the road. I'd guess that it would have avoided the concrete barrier and driven down the closed lane

Try 3 - This one looks like it picked the wrong lane marker to be the left side of the road. In that it thought the right lane marker of the closed lane was actually the left lane marker. This one probably ends up with a smashed car and dead driver.