I test-drove a Model S about that time - it was hair-raising because the system would correct the cars position about a half-second after I would have. I hovered my hands by the wheel the whole time, waiting for it to careen us into a bridge abutment.
While SuperCruise is a highway only system, riding in a friend's car with it was pretty much a non-event.
Realistically, how many chances do you think the average person is going to give the alg to drive them into an object at 70mph?
Has there been a significant customer side advancement in Tesla autopilot in 10 years? From what I can tell, all Elon has accomplished is becoming the new Prius- a sprinkling of Teslas blocking the left lane of our highways (ask any Autopilot aficionado, that’s the safest place to use it) while the human inside watches TikTok.
Come experience it between my house and walmart before you go telling people they need to experience it. Good luck having good weather during your drive, here in louisiana.
Self driving probably works great on Interstates with numbers like 5, 10, and the feeders. Based on my experiences with subaru self driving and watching videos and watching tesla drivers around here, a self driving car would give up after maybe 3 minutes. There were more teslas and other expensive "self-driving" style cars a couple years ago, but now i rarely see them. I wonder why?
I can consistently get my wife's subaru self driving to swerve into another lane without warning, without jerking the wheel, with very minor control inputs. Subaru keeps updating the firmware, but they haven't fixed the suicide merge!
Are you from Houston originally, by chance, or from a part of western Louisiana? Anytime I hear the word “feeder” it’s a dead giveaway the person either grew up near Houston area or hung around there long enough to use this word in their lexicon
Nope! I'm from the state where i had to consciously not type "the 5, the 10" - California. I've lived in Louisiana for 12 years, total, now, though. I couldn't think of a better name for like the 405 or 710 than "feeders" - maybe tributary; i know there is a term of art for those freeways, though.
“Frontage” is the nomenclature I usually see in lieu of “feeder”. Though I agree that feeder is more descriptive of what the road actually does when we consider a road as being as a network or graph with flow.
Though the roads you reference would probably not be called “feeders” in the same way. I take feeder specifically in the Houstonian meaning to refer to a frontage road that is used for local access that runs parallel to a limited access highway. Notably it must run parallel to the highway and exist for the primary purpose of providing local ingress and egress while preserving the limited access nature of the highway.
Yeah 10 years ago it was a bit much. It was pretty much just lane keeping and distance keeping, but it didn't read signs or lights yet. So if you're coming up on a signal it would just keep going!
> Chrysler was the first manufacturer to implement the device in 1958. They called it “Auto-Pilot” and it appeared in their luxury model as an upgraded option. Soon after, General Motors installed it in their Cadillac vehicles, naming it “Cruise Control” which has stuck to this day.
While SuperCruise is a highway only system, riding in a friend's car with it was pretty much a non-event.