Tesla Full Self-Driving (FSD) might be essentially the most superior autonomous driving system on any automobile, however it’s nonetheless removed from being completed. Whereas it does what you’ll anticipate in commonest driving situations, some conditions appear to fluster the system, and it behaves surprisingly and dangerously.
On this video uploaded to YouTube by Jacob6875, he’s in his Mannequin 3 with FSD Supervised model 12.3.6 enabled, which will get confused by a railroad crossing that’s instantly adopted by a cease signal. This isn’t a super street design since if there may be a couple of automobile ready on the cease signal, it should drive different vehicles to have to attend on the tracks.
FSD is getting higher however it’s nonetheless acquired a protracted option to go
Tesla’s Full Self Driving stands out as the most superior semi-autonomous driving system in any automobile, however points like this one with the railroad crossing counsel the street to it changing into dependable and fool-proof remains to be lengthy.
The automobile doesn’t seem to detect the prepare tracks, and it stops proper between them and a bit too removed from the signal, placing the automobile and the driving force in danger. The motive force has to take guide management and speed up to get it to maneuver off the tracks.
FSD normally handles railroad crossings higher and has no downside detecting and stopping appropriately particularly when when the lights are flashing, asserting the upcoming passing of a prepare.
Nonetheless, in one other latest FSD video, the automobile had the system enabled, however it did not see a passing prepare or the crossing gate lights on account of dense fog. We don’t know what Tesla mannequin is within the video or what FSD model it’s working, however had it not been for the driving force’s intervention to swerve proper on the final second, the automobile would have crashed into the facet of the shifting prepare.
The automobile nonetheless crashed, however simply into the crossing gate, and solely suffered average injury, however it might have been a lot worse if it hit the prepare—the driving force would have in all probability been harm and the automobile totaled.
Fog or smoke could be very exhausting for a automobile to see by, even in autos geared up with a number of varieties of sensors, together with lidar. Teslas have relied solely on cameras for self-driving options since 2022, ditching ultrasonic sensors and radar within the course of. Automotive radar (which was current on older Teslas) has superior in recent times, and it’s the finest know-how to see objects which might be hidden by fog or smoke—it may have probably averted the incident within the second video.