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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jun/09/tesla-autopilot-crashes-investigation-nhtsa
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US federal regulators are deepening their investigation into Tesla’s Autopilot function after more than a dozen Tesla cars crashed into parked first-responder vehicles over a period of four years.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said on Thursday it was upgrading its preliminary investigation, which launched last August, to an “engineering analysis”, which is taken before the agency determines a recall.
The investigation covers all four Tesla vehicles – Models Y, X, S and 3 – representing about 830,000 vehicles that have been sold in the US.
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And never will, full self-driving being a techno-utopian fantasy that requires strong AI.The only difference between Musk and Holmes is therefore the degree of deception in the grift.
Self driving certainly seems like a tough problem, but I don’t see why it would require “strong AI” (presumably human-level general intelligence). Certainly, there’s plenty of creatures with much smaller brains than us that can navigate perfectly well (e.g. a squirrel finding their way through a maze).
To my mind, the big problem with Tesla’s AI is that they’re just using video cameras and trying to identify everything visually which as CAPTCHAs demonstrate is something we haven’t solved with computers yet. Fitting LIDAR, although expensive, gives much better 3D information about the surroundings.
I’m still holding out for flying cars though – I’m sure we were promised that as kids.
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