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Originally Posted by FenwickHockey65
Does AutoPilot require the driver to be paying attention to the road at all? SuperCruise will start throwing a hissy fit once it notices your eyes aren't focused out the windshield.
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Originally Posted by DGthe3
I don't believe so.
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Me, either...at least if there is, it's minimal - I noticed the DIC started blinking just before it chose "a lane". But I haven't driven one, so it's very hard to say...Though, if I recall, there was a drive who did NOT pay attention while autopilot was engaged (shame on Tesla for the name of that system, by the way), and either got into a nasty accident, or got killed.
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Originally Posted by DGthe3
The engineers aren't trying to mimic human thinking with self driving cars. Thats too difficult & completely unnecessary. A car mainly needs to see that its getting closer to something, then not hit it. While not easy, its a considerably simpler task than what we're doing as we drive.
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I guess what I meant there was my interpretation of what went wrong...the car appeared to "chose a lane" that most closely appeared to be the way the navigation system wanted it to go. It just so happened that the "lane" was the divider stripes leading to the barrier.
This could have been because the camera didn't properly detect the lines on the road?
A human could have seen that wasn't a lane...a computer can't, unless it was programmed for that particular instance. And even then - it can only function based on the inputs it is provides...we can see a crappy-looking line on the road and still determine what it's supposed to mean.
I believe the programming these companies are putting into the cars are attempting to mimic human decision-making on the road. In this case, it failed.