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I got a Tesla so autopilot would save me from rear-ending anyone when I'm distracted Instead, it has almost guaranteed that I'm going to be rear-ended myself because it's constantly slamming on the brakes for no good reason Today in rain it almost caused an accident behind me😬

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Chris Anderson

@chr1sa

Oct 23, 2021

Another thing that I really hate about Autopilot is that it has no idea what to do when lanes split How about just staying in the left hand lane where I already am? This is today on 880, five miles from the main Tesla factory in Freemont. Leaves lane🙄

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Tesla has no idea what to do when lanes split

I had to manually steer it back to the left lane. Ugh

Chris Anderson

@chr1sa

Oct 23, 2021

I had to manually steer it back to the left lane

Chris Anderson

@chr1sa

It also gets confused by trucks in the next lane and thinks they're encroaching in my lane. Here it is doing that this morning. The car slows down when it sees the truck (or its shadow?) and I have to take over. Infuriating

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Tesla getting confused by truck in the next lane

It thinks its encroaching on my lane (maybe because of the shadow?) and slows down, forcing me to take over

8:39 PM · Oct 23, 2021

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Oct 23, 2021

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That truck does seem to cross the white line though? As such, I'd regard that slowdown as expected behaviour?

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It's just a big truck in a tight lane - it's expected to wander a bit. In person, it was clear it was not encroaching. My Tesla does this every day when it passes trucks (not every time but at least once per highway session)

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Monocular vision systems are prone to hallucination. It really takes two or more cameras/perspectives (parallax) to understand scene geometry. It's wild to me that Tesla isn't exploring stereo AND monocular techniques. Anyways, it's what we do at

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