Can Tesla's Self-Driving Software Handle Bus-Only Lanes? Not Reliably, No. - FuelArc News
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There was an interesting side-note in Tesla’s last earnings call, where they explained the main challenge of releasing Full-Self Driving (supervised!) in China was a quirk of Chinese roads: the bus-only lanes. Well, jeez, we have bus-only lanes here in Chicago, too. Like many other American metropolises… including Austin TX, where Tesla plans to rollout […]

It’s not hard to find videos of self-driving Teslas wilding in bus lanes. Check the videos out, then consider:

"There was an interesting side-note in Tesla’s last earnings call, where they explained the main challenge of releasing Full-Self Driving (supervised!) in China was a quirk of Chinese roads: the bus-only lanes.

Well, jeez, we have bus-only lanes here in Chicago, too. Like many other American metropolises… including Austin TX, where Tesla plans to rollout unsupervised autonomous vehicles in a matter of weeks…"

It’s one of those regional differences to driving that make a generalizable self-driving platform an exceedingly tough technical nut to crack… unless you’re willing to just plain ignore the local rules.

  • xthexder@l.sw0.comEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Well now you’ve made me go read all their Reddit comments. It happened February 27, and they said it took 2 months for their insurance to get processed. It doesn’t seem unreasonable to me to wait until they’ve got everything sorted out before posting.

    Based on pictures of the dash cam files they posted, I don’t think they have internal video, they would have had to turn it on before hand I think? Tesla mostly talks about sentry mode internal camera, so I don’t actually know if it would record by default.
    But again, I don’t think it’s reasonable to expect them to edit a video with face blurring and everything, they don’t owe the Internet anything, and not everyone even knows how.

    I’ll be honest I don’t know for sure they’re being truthful, but I’m certainly a lot less skeptical about than you. I think enough of their story checks out that I’m not going to discount it based on lack of additional info alone. I haven’t seen them contradict themselves anywhere.