[codingdave]

When someone pulled right in front of me from a side street a while back while I was driving, the car slammed on the brakes and before I even registered fully what was going on, I found myself stopped safely, but only inches away from having t-boned that guy.

That is the level of experience AI needs to get to. Not buttons that basically say: "Use AI!!" but features so fully integrated and smooth that you don't even think about whether or not AI is behind it... it just does what it does when it needs to do it.

(And I know, my anecdote wasn't about LLMs, but that is kinda the point.)

[davedx]

Not necessarily AI at all. Collision avoidance can work purely based on range finding. Self driving that actually does use AI is all over the place

[taneq]

Not in any 2+ dimensional situation. Radar based AEB is awful. Reliable collision avoidance requires robust prediction of future trajectories for everything around you (technically it requires robust lower bounds on minimum time to impact for every object around you, which requires perception of and identification of every object around you plus reasonable predictions based on identification and behaviour history for each object... if you're willing to allow "nah that was BS and not your fault" style collisions like the "stopped for a paper bag sitting on the road" / "hit a stack of bricks in a paper bag" dichotomy then it's a little more forgiving but still much harder than rangefinder + 2nd order equations of motion.)

[robg]

Agreed, this basic application is so deeply potent, been saved a few times because the car reacted faster than I ever could have.

[nunez]

Oh man; that's a daily experience in Houston!

tbf Tesla's full self driving software does use AI to react to exactly these cut-in scenarios as of v12. (They were hardcoded in previous versions.)

[guappa]

My car has an alert for collision detection.

It always triggers slightly AFTER I stopped or avoided the collision.

[stavros]

Oh, that's not the collision detection alert, that's actually the Aperture Collision Avoidance Congratulatory Chime.