Why self-driving cars have stalled | It's Complicated

Fully fledged self-driving technology appears to be perpetually just around the corner. It is a promise that the Tesla chief executive, Elon Musk, has made almost every year since 2013.

But in the real world, it is still an open question whether level five self-driving automation is actually possible. Josh Toussaint-Strauss finds out how close industry frontrunners have come to full autopilot mode and assess the scale of the problems standing in their way.

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[geronimo]

Well, there's always another next year, Elon 🌝.

[MycketTuff]

Driving a modern Volvo and having it slam the brakes on me passing between two parked cars was all I needed to know about how "advanced" it is.

[makingwaves]

One thing is to make autonomous cars driving around in sunny California. Another thing is to do the same in parts of the world with heavy snow, poor or missing road markings, and in a climate where you are nearer to the elements.

[ChrisandKnight]

(Original video on my channel)
So that's actually my dash camera video from 0:54 to 0:55 and my Tesla was NOT in any autopilot at all, it had performed some emergency braking while I was driving manually. The traffic lights were out at the intersection and the other car just blew on through.

[jonnyfranco]

the problem is if it even makes 1 mistake its extremely scary to the point where ppl wont try it again for a very very very very long time

[entfj]

The greatest power human beings have is 'unpredictability'

[darkhorse]

I’m an engineer in one of those companies. I can tell you this their designs are flawed.
They just patch it up hopefully it may magically work out.

[truthfullattic]

I have a self driving car: The rail guided car (AKA the train)

[meawwow]

It's just impossible in India.
Even humans cannot predict what will happen next on our roads😂

[willardSpirit]

Public transportation like the metro and tram lines are kind of autonomous and electric!

[triadwarfare]

5:17 no matter how many "safety features" you put in your car, prevention is always better because the safety systems can fail just like what you see here.

[bederhajali]

This is into the future. Automate the trains which are on rails then think of automating cars.

[HenriZwols]

5:03 "This is what can happen under level 2 automation"
This can happen under level 3 automation as well. At level 1, 2 and 3 there needs to be driver attention, something that was missing here.

[luismartinezxiv]

Keep your hands on the wheel no matter until it’s actually proven that the world has reached that capability. I do it with my Honda but still have my eyes on the road and on the wheel. Don’t be cocky or else you’ll end up being one of those fatal.

[noraddinhassan]

this why we should know how our brain is really a great blessing

[rickfarny]

It may be able to work in a place like Phoenix Arizona, but I can't see it happening ever in places like Europe or Asia where the streets are so much more varied, busy and narrow.

[leonhma]

You don't get it. That's in elon-time, which ticks about seven times slower.

[dreffon]

The question seems to depend mostly on the threshold we collectively set for this technology to be considered safe. Is it "better than humans" or "virtually infallible" ? The first one might be achieved, not the second one

[nobodistribe]

"We are no closer to autonomous driving, " that's not true.
Some of what they showed as ai failing was manual driving
They said everyone paid $12k for autopilot
That's not true.

[martynhaggerty]

The problem is not just seeing what's in front of you...but predicting what will happen in the next few seconds. As much psychological as computational.