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Moon Tricks Tesla's Full Self-Driving Feature into Thinking It's a Yellow Light

by clashmeifyoucan on 7/26/21, 4:55 AM with 13 comments

• by ayane_m on 7/26/21, 7:59 AM

  I'm not going to knock Tesla for trying a primarily visual-only approach, but I will knock them for insisting that it will work out to level 4 autonomous driving with just software.

  I predict that these kinds of unexpected edge cases will keep popping up for several years. It certainly will be interesting to see how robust their image processing algorithms get as time goes on, but I wouldn't hold my breath for reliable full self driving for a while.

• by HWR_14 on 7/26/21, 1:24 PM

  Just planning ahead. Musk knows that soon he'll be on Starlink 5, completely blocking out the sun and moon. Why bother with programming a workaround for an issue with a better solution coming!

• by Tempest1981 on 7/26/21, 9:01 AM

  Discussed here 2 days ago (85 comments):

  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27934539

• by kevin42 on 7/26/21, 3:26 PM

  I had this happen on my commute to work, but from the sun. It's really smoky here, and the sun was breaking through the smoke just enough and at the right angle to look like a yellow light. It was pretty amusing to see a bunch of yellow traffic lights stream by as I was driving.

• by high_byte on 7/26/21, 9:14 AM

  "LIDAR is stupid." and also "Tesla to collaborate with SpaceX on star-shade" lol

• by simonh on 7/26/21, 11:09 AM

  How long before Teslas start identifying Jupiter and weather balloons as UFOs?