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by Animats 2494 days ago
Cruise Automation handling double-parked cars with LIDAR.[1] They show the scan lines and some of the path planning. Busy city streets, lots of obstacles.

Waymo handling city traffic with LIDAR.[2] They show the scan lines and some of the path planning. Busy city streets, lots of obstacles.

Tesla self-driving demo, April 2019.[3] They show their display which puts pictures of cars and trucks on screen. No difficult obstacles are encountered. Recorded in the Palo Alto hills and on I-280 on a very quiet day. The only time it does anything at all hard is when it has to make a left turn from I-280 south onto Page Mill, where the through traffic does not stop. [3] Look at the display. Where's the cross traffic info?

Tesla's 2016 self driving video [5] is now known to have been made by trying over and over until they got a successful run with no human intervention. The 2019 demo looks similar. Although Tesla said they would, they never actually let reporters ride in the cars in full self driving mode.

[1] http://gmauthority.com/blog/2019/06/how-cruise-self-driving-...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8R148hFxPw

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfIelJYOygY

[4] https://youtu.be/nfIelJYOygY?t=353

[5] https://player.vimeo.com/video/188105076

1 comments

> Look at the display. Where's the cross traffic info"

Tesla's display does not render all of the data that the computer knows about.

Additionally this article is assuming the camera based solution for Tesla will be single-camera. Last I checked the actual solution is going to be stereo vision of multiple cameras (think one on each side of windshield) and using ML to combine that data. The Model 3 does not have that capability though because its three cameras are center mounted.