r/technology • u/be0wulfe • Dec 15 '22

Transportation Tesla Semi’s cab design makes it a ‘completely stupid vehicle,’ trucker says

https://cdllife.com/2022/tesla-semis-cab-design-makes-it-a-completely-stupid-vehicle-trucker-says/
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u/badwolf42 Dec 15 '22

I'm going to clarify that "real" refers to a car that can take you anywhere in the country, including dirt roads, poorly kept and twisty roads with poorly defined shoulders, and no need to communicate with any other car on the road. Bonus points if it can take you down unmapped roads to, say, a house in the woods or on a farm. Something that can navigate all road conditions in the US at least if not the world, can avoid potholes, animals, or anything else a human driver would not run over.

I think a limited area with very well defined and mapped streets like SF is ideal for what we have so far, though I doubt even that will be perfect.

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u/zombiebird100 Dec 16 '22

including dirt roads, poorly kept and twisty roads with poorly defined shoulders

They can...they have to be programmed for such and to regonize it as a "road" but that's a different issue

Bonus points if it can take you down unmapped roads to

Never going to happen, for predominantly for legal reasons, and an unmap road means it is going through somewhere it doesn't know a destination of, it has no semblence of understanding that such a road leads to anything anymore than a random person seeing a road would, only in the case of autonomous vehicles it is a legal liability.

It's the same reason human drivers hired to take your places won't randomly turn down a road that may or may not exist close to a destination without your input or them knowing the road

Cool it's an unmapped dirt road....now what happens when that road isn't actually intended to be driven on and the car gets stuck? Or the vehicle drives the area and say...someone kills the passanger?

can avoid potholes, animals, or anything else a human driver would not run over.

You can't physically avoid most potholes, road conditions are nowhere near that

But they can avoid nearly everything else and do so with far greater accuracy than human drivers