This does NOT seem to be particularly egregious, however, I try to stay aware of how these potentially extremely dangerous types of technology get integrated into our society.
Copilot:
The Waymo self-driving vehicle incident occurred on January 23, 2026, in Santa Monica, California, during normal school drop-off hours. The vehicle struck a child who was running across the street from behind a double-parked SUV. The Waymo Driver immediately detected the child and braked hard, reducing the vehicle’s speed from approximately 17 mph to under 6 mph before contact was made. The child sustained minor injuries and walked to the sidewalk after the incident. Waymo reported the incident to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and stated that it will cooperate fully with the agency throughout the investigation. The NHTSA is investigating whether the Waymo vehicle exercised appropriate caution given its proximity to the elementary school and the presence of young pedestrians.
The Hill
Perhaps 8 months ago, a friend had his Tesla upgraded to fully autonomous driving and offered to take me for a ride. It was impressive. We drove to a half dozen different spots around my area, including the front door of a busy Target store. There were lots of pedestrians crossing in front of the car on their way in or out of Target. My friend’s only inputs were to the car’s computer the whole time.
Looks like the Red Phone’s been replaced by the Purge Phone…
Tommy Jay, while Tesla FSD does drive the car, it only operates in supervised mode. There is a camera looking at the driver at all times. If the driver looks away from the road for more than about 5 seconds, the FSD mode warns the driver, then will disengage. But you’re right, the driver isn’t controlling the steering wheel or brakes.
So it’s not truly autonomous. Tesla is conducting trials with it’s robotaxi in Austin (as is Waymo). They operate without a driver, but do have chase cars observing. There is excitement in the Tesla community for the true autonomous mode to be released. That would allow the driver to do other tasks or allow no driver at all.
I’ve been looking at replacing my wife’s SUV and the Model Y Tesla looks interesting. The SUV is a 2016 and while it has lane keeping and adaptive cruise, it doesn’t work very well. The idea of just sitting and allowing the car to drive when we go on trips is enticing. It doesn’t have the cargo space of the SUV, but with the seats down, it’s enough for our two dogs to ride along.
“Senate Republicans eye talking filibuster for voter ID bill, but Thune warns of ‘opportunity cost'”
Mr. Thune, South Dakota Republican, said enforcing the talking filibuster rule creates “an opportunity cost.”
“It ties up the floor indefinitely, so it means you’re not doing other things,” he said. “There’s some important things that we want to do — housing reform, market structure, permitting reform, maybe AI, farm bill, highway bill. … The coin of the realm in the Senate is floor time, so you have to decide how you’re going to prioritize it.”
@Selfy:And those are more important than the integrity of our elections??
To GOPe types, yes, it is. They have friends, patrons and clients who need to get paid with our money and there is nothing more important than that. Whatever deal with Dems you need to make, people need to get paid.
Filbusters have about the significance of “Simon Says” because they can opt out of playing “Simon Says” whenever 51 vote to opt out and I have literally lost count of how many times it was done in 2025 but last I checked they had done it three times.
Tommy Jay, I’m surprised at the incident you linked to. The driver had time to react and slow the car, but the front camera of the car didn’t pick up the child/movement.
In general I think ADAS (Automatic Driving Aid Systems) will be safer. If your car has side traffic monitoring, and emergency braking, which almost all newer cars have you’ve already experienced the benefit.
The first week my wife had her 2016 car, the emergency braking system prevented her rear ending a car that had pulled out in front of her.
Advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) like Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD Supervised), GM Super Cruise, Ford BlueCruise, and equivalents generally show fewer accidents per mile driven compared to the general population, with reductions ranging from 20–50% overall (and higher for specific crash types). Data is limited and often biased by demographics (e.g., ADAS users tend to be middle-aged, higher-income, safer drivers), but available studies and reports consistently point to safety benefits. Age-specific breakdowns are sparse, but some evidence suggests greater relative benefits for older drivers (due to reduced reaction time and attention lapses) and mixed or higher absolute benefits for younger drivers (who have higher baseline risk).
As I’m getting older, I still have fairly good reaction times, but I have slowed somewhat. FSD will benefit me, especially on trips– and will allow more relaxed driving. One of the issues that the manufacturers need to address is in some climate conditions, the cameras get dirt/debris (snow/slush for instance) which affects them. The car does notify the driver and slows down in response. It’s my understanding that Tesla’s robotaxi has washer to automatically keep the camera lenses clean. They should add that to all cars.
Right now cars are at Level 2 which requires the driver to remain aware at all times.
Level 3 autonomy, also known as “conditional automation,” refers to a stage of self-driving technology where the vehicle can handle all aspects of driving in specific conditions (e.g., on highways or mapped urban areas) without human input, but the driver must be ready to take over if the system requests it. This is a step up from Level 2 (e.g., Tesla’s FSD Supervised or Honda Sensing), where constant supervision is required, but below Level 4 (full automation in limited domains) or Level 5 (anywhere, anytime). As of early 2026, no widely available consumer vehicles have achieved true, unsupervised Level 3 autonomy in the U.S., but developments are accelerating. Below, I’ll outline the future outlook based on recent industry reports and announcements.
Near-Term Prospects (2026)
Limited Rollouts and Testing: 2026 is expected to see the first broader deployments of Level 3 systems, primarily on highways and in controlled environments. For example, Japanese automakers are advancing Level 3 highway autonomy kits for their vehicles, with real-world testing showing promise but emphasizing the need for user expectations to align with narrow definitions (e.g., hands-free on expressways but not in all conditions). Tesla’s FSD (Supervised) is currently the leading Level 2 system, with improvements in v14 making it feel closer to Level 3 in practice, but it remains supervised. Mercedes-Benz plans to launch next-generation Level 3 ADAS on the new S-Class in early 2026, allowing hands-off/eyes-off driving on certain highways.
Road trips is where I expect to use the features most. We live in a rural community and the city driving isn’t that much of an issue. If I lived in a large city with long commutes, it would be a great feature.
As the saying goes, you would have to have a heart of stone not to laugh.
“Ex-Washington Post Editor Marty Baron Decries Jeff Bezos’ Betrayal as Staffers, Alumni Torch Paper’s Bloodbath Layoffs
The widespread condemnation follows the Post’s management slashing coverage of foreign affairs, sports, metro and books”
I asked Chat “When a level 2 system (Tesla) encounters a situation it cannot recognize, does it return steering wheel control to the human driver?” Chat answered: A Tesla Level 2 system does not autonomously decide what to do when confused—it demands that the human driver take full steering control immediately.
Assume a Tesla owner bought the car only for commuting to work and has no other car. All his/her needs are taken care of by delivery systems, digital or physical. For the first few days, weeks or months, he/she pays attention to what the car is doing, ready to take command instantly. After days, weeks, months or years of riding the same boring route to work without ever taking control, the driver would pay less and less attention to what the car was doing, slowing down their reaction time. At some point, the driver might forget how to react.
So on his/her way to work on a bright sunny day, a rhinoceros escapes from the local zoo and is charging at full speed directly toward the autonomous vehicle. The system doesn’t recognize rhinoceroses, says “You got the con, boss” and throws steering control to the driver . . . who freezes, no longer knowing what to do. Who does the zoo sue for loss of the rhino?
“The system doesn’t recognize rhinoceroses, says “You got the con, boss” and throws steering control to the driver . . . who freezes, no longer knowing what to do. Who does the zoo sue for loss of the rhino?”
This seems kind of similar to the aviation accident over the South Atlantic, in which an Airbus was flying on autopilot until the autopilot disengaged, announcing, in effect ‘You got the con, boss”…most likely because the pitot tubes had iced over, causing the loss of airspeed information.
The pilots did not exactly freeze, but, taken by surprise, they didn’t recover from the situation.
I don’t know.
As a firm believer in Murphy’s Law I’m not exactly on-board with all this driverless car stuff; and while I’m not exactly in the running for self-driving cars at this point in my life, I’m firmly convinced that were I to find myself driving one that—forget about the glare issue—it would just be a matter of time before a scenario such as, oh say, I tell it to pull into an ice cream parlor or pizzeria, it would respond with something like, “Sorry Barry but I’m afraid I can’t do that…”.
I think I’ve told this story here before, but what the hell. My wife’s uncle, a genuine hero of mine, went to all seven games of the 1968 World Series. One day, before I leave this earth, I’ll do something similar.
The 1968 World Series was won by the Detroit Tigers, who defeated the St. Louis Cardinals 4 games to 3 in a memorable series known as the “Year of the Pitcher”. The Tigers came back from a 1-3 series deficit, with pitcher Mickey Lolich winning three complete games, including the decisive Game 7, to earn the MVP award.
Cap’n Rusty, I’ll keep that in mind if I’m ever driving by a zoo. I’ll keep my hands close to the wheel.
Model Y Tesla
I’ve also looked at that model. Apart from the self driving, they are easily converted to car camping, you can buy fitted mattresses and such. Maybe my next car in a year or two. I expect the technology to keep improving. I do have a preference for knobs over touch screens, so we will see.
Actually scientists are discussing it and have been seriously reassessing our relationship with Neanderthals from a separate inferior species to another branch of the family which specialized according to its environments but never lost its ability to interbreed.
I’ve long thought the Neanderthal had gotten a bad rap. Here’s to Homo sapiens neanderthalensis as some now specify.
He ain’t heavy, he’s my brother!
@huxley:scientists are discussing it and have been seriously reassessing our relationship with Neanderthals a separate inferior species
I’d be surprised if any Western scientist since 1980 had ever expressed a value judgment like that about any hominid. Popular culture talks that way; definitely people would get that impression from Clan of the Cave Bear and such.
Hard to watch – Savannah Guthrie posts plea for her mother Nancy’s return – VIDEO
Tragic accident where I used to live; high school athletic event, cars parked along a two-lane, 45mph road. Kid jumps out from between vehicles, was hit and killed. No possibility the driver could have stopped. Like to know the timing of he Waymo incident.
Have a new Toyota 2025. The lane minder/assist is pretty cool when the lanes are marked distinctively. Keeps you in the lane. But it demands some human control input from time to time or it lights up and buzzes. If a self-driving car had that feature…it wouldn’t be self-driving.
I suppose lane drift when on limited access roads or long highways with very few stops can lead to lack of attention when the driver doesn’t have to do much. So the minder is probably useful.
The operator’s manual is 350 pages and we still need videos for tech support.
Tesla uses a different approach to programming it assisted driving.
I asked Grok: If i understand tesla’s approach to it’s technology. it uses actual video to learn how to drive and recognize objects such as a cat in the road.
Yes, you understand Tesla’s approach correctly. Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) system relies heavily on real-world video data collected from its fleet to train neural networks that learn how to drive and recognize objects—including something like a cat in the road.
Here’s how it works in straightforward terms:
1. Massive Video Data Collection
Every Tesla with Autopilot hardware (HW3 or HW4) records video from its 8–11 cameras whenever the car is driving.
When drivers use Autopilot/FSD or even just drive manually, the car captures millions of short video clips of real-world scenarios (intersections, pedestrians, animals, construction zones, etc.).
Tesla has collected billions of miles of driving data this way—far more than any other company—because it comes from customer cars, not just test fleets.
2. End-to-End Neural Networks Trained on Video
Tesla uses an end-to-end neural network approach (especially in FSD v12 and later):
Input: Raw video frames from the cameras.
Output: Steering angle, acceleration, braking, lane choice, etc.
The neural net is trained on this huge video dataset to learn patterns directly from the footage—no hand-coded rules for “if you see a cat, slow down.”
Instead, the system learns by watching millions of examples of how humans (and the car itself) react when a cat, deer, pedestrian, pothole, or other object appears in the road.
3. Object Recognition (Like a Cat in the Road)
The neural network doesn’t use traditional object detection (e.g., “this is a cat, 85% confidence”) in the same way older systems did.
It learns spatiotemporal understanding from video: It recognizes motion, size, trajectory, and context (e.g., a small, fast-moving object darting across the road) and decides how to react (slow down, swerve, stop).
This is why Tesla removed radar from newer models—they believe vision + neural nets trained on massive video data are sufficient (and more generalizable) than multi-sensor fusion used by competitors.
4. How It Compares to Other Manufacturers
Most other companies (Waymo, Cruise, GM Super Cruise, Ford BlueCruise, Mercedes) use:
High-definition maps (pre-mapped roads)
Multiple sensors (LiDAR, radar, cameras)
Rule-based software + neural nets for specific tasks
Tesla’s bet: Pure vision + enormous real-world video data + end-to-end learning will scale better and eventually outperform map-heavy, sensor-heavy approaches.
Bottom Line
Yes—Tesla’s FSD learns to drive and recognize things like a cat in the road primarily by watching billions of hours of real video from its fleet, training massive neural networks to imitate safe human driving behavior. This “learning from video” approach is very different from most competitors and is why Tesla pushes so hard to get FSD into as many cars as possible (more data = better training).
Niketas Choniates:
Get back to me when you have developed a sense of humor and can properly parse it from the written word.
Tommy Jay @ 11:54 describes a situation where a Waymo driven car was unable to detect a child in an unusual situation, requiring human intervention.
Since Tesla uses a different learning strategy than other ADAS, I ran across this video in Tesla’s hardware from mid 2023 to the current year.
The videographer describes how much better the car has gotten in object avoidance in the V14 versions.
Pretty basic explanation, but can Tesla drive three trips without intervention and beat Waymo at it in San Francisco. The Tesla is a model 3 that you can buy today and was too iterations behind the current software version.
Tesla did need one intervention when there was a construction cone in the middle of the road. The rider intervened, but I think didn’t give Tesla a chance to figure it out.
Anyway, interesting. It does show that Tesla has the best ADAS (Automatic Driving Assistance System) available today.
Who could have seen this coming?
The Epstein Files Fallout Hits the Innocent
https://archive.fo/ePUyv
Commies continue to harass MN churchgoers.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/21-year-old-minnesota-church-attendee-reveals-leftist-agitators-still-harassing-faithful
This does NOT seem to be particularly egregious, however, I try to stay aware of how these potentially extremely dangerous types of technology get integrated into our society.
Copilot:
Perhaps 8 months ago, a friend had his Tesla upgraded to fully autonomous driving and offered to take me for a ride. It was impressive. We drove to a half dozen different spots around my area, including the front door of a busy Target store. There were lots of pedestrians crossing in front of the car on their way in or out of Target. My friend’s only inputs were to the car’s computer the whole time.
Looks like the Red Phone’s been replaced by the Purge Phone…
“Trump holds ‘long and thorough call’ with Xi Jinping amid purge”—
https://nypost.com/2026/02/04/us-news/trump-holds-long-and-thorough-call-with-xi-jinping-amid-purge/
Talking about purges (or should that be purgatives?…Purgatory?)
“’No One Is Buying The Dip’: Traders React As Tech Wreck Continues”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/no-one-buying-dip-traders-react-yesterdays-chaos
Yikes!
Shakeout?
Or assassination…?
On a brighter note, perhaps:
“‘Nearly Indestructible’ Fuel: Nano Nuclear CEO Talks ‘Laser Enrichment’ On Shawn Ryan Show”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/nano-nuclear-founder-shawn-ryan-show
And a “World’s Greatest Intellectual” update:
“Newly released files shed new light on Chomsky and Epstein relationship.”—
https://instapundit.com/774066/
“Trump to place Christopher Columbus statue on White House grounds”
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/feb/4/trump-place-christopher-columbus-statue-white-house-grounds/
Tommy Jay, while Tesla FSD does drive the car, it only operates in supervised mode. There is a camera looking at the driver at all times. If the driver looks away from the road for more than about 5 seconds, the FSD mode warns the driver, then will disengage. But you’re right, the driver isn’t controlling the steering wheel or brakes.
So it’s not truly autonomous. Tesla is conducting trials with it’s robotaxi in Austin (as is Waymo). They operate without a driver, but do have chase cars observing. There is excitement in the Tesla community for the true autonomous mode to be released. That would allow the driver to do other tasks or allow no driver at all.
I’ve been looking at replacing my wife’s SUV and the Model Y Tesla looks interesting. The SUV is a 2016 and while it has lane keeping and adaptive cruise, it doesn’t work very well. The idea of just sitting and allowing the car to drive when we go on trips is enticing. It doesn’t have the cargo space of the SUV, but with the seats down, it’s enough for our two dogs to ride along.
“Senate Republicans eye talking filibuster for voter ID bill, but Thune warns of ‘opportunity cost'”
And those are more important than the integrity of our elections??
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/feb/3/senate-republicans-eye-talking-filibuster-voter-id-bill-thune-warns/
@Selfy:And those are more important than the integrity of our elections??
To GOPe types, yes, it is. They have friends, patrons and clients who need to get paid with our money and there is nothing more important than that. Whatever deal with Dems you need to make, people need to get paid.
The talking filibuster can be set aside one time only with a simple majority in exactly the same way that the cloture votes or any other rule can be set aside one time only with a simple majority. If the Majority Leadership doesn’t support the filibuster they will work with the Dems to break it as they have done before against a GOP filibuster.
Filbusters have about the significance of “Simon Says” because they can opt out of playing “Simon Says” whenever 51 vote to opt out and I have literally lost count of how many times it was done in 2025 but last I checked they had done it three times.
Tommy Jay, I’m surprised at the incident you linked to. The driver had time to react and slow the car, but the front camera of the car didn’t pick up the child/movement.
In general I think ADAS (Automatic Driving Aid Systems) will be safer. If your car has side traffic monitoring, and emergency braking, which almost all newer cars have you’ve already experienced the benefit.
The first week my wife had her 2016 car, the emergency braking system prevented her rear ending a car that had pulled out in front of her.
As I’m getting older, I still have fairly good reaction times, but I have slowed somewhat. FSD will benefit me, especially on trips– and will allow more relaxed driving. One of the issues that the manufacturers need to address is in some climate conditions, the cameras get dirt/debris (snow/slush for instance) which affects them. The car does notify the driver and slows down in response. It’s my understanding that Tesla’s robotaxi has washer to automatically keep the camera lenses clean. They should add that to all cars.
Right now cars are at Level 2 which requires the driver to remain aware at all times.
Road trips is where I expect to use the features most. We live in a rural community and the city driving isn’t that much of an issue. If I lived in a large city with long commutes, it would be a great feature.
As the saying goes, you would have to have a heart of stone not to laugh.
“Ex-Washington Post Editor Marty Baron Decries Jeff Bezos’ Betrayal as Staffers, Alumni Torch Paper’s Bloodbath Layoffs
The widespread condemnation follows the Post’s management slashing coverage of foreign affairs, sports, metro and books”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/ex-washington-post-editor-marty-162058243.html
I asked Chat “When a level 2 system (Tesla) encounters a situation it cannot recognize, does it return steering wheel control to the human driver?” Chat answered: A Tesla Level 2 system does not autonomously decide what to do when confused—it demands that the human driver take full steering control immediately.
Assume a Tesla owner bought the car only for commuting to work and has no other car. All his/her needs are taken care of by delivery systems, digital or physical. For the first few days, weeks or months, he/she pays attention to what the car is doing, ready to take command instantly. After days, weeks, months or years of riding the same boring route to work without ever taking control, the driver would pay less and less attention to what the car was doing, slowing down their reaction time. At some point, the driver might forget how to react.
So on his/her way to work on a bright sunny day, a rhinoceros escapes from the local zoo and is charging at full speed directly toward the autonomous vehicle. The system doesn’t recognize rhinoceroses, says “You got the con, boss” and throws steering control to the driver . . . who freezes, no longer knowing what to do. Who does the zoo sue for loss of the rhino?
“The system doesn’t recognize rhinoceroses, says “You got the con, boss” and throws steering control to the driver . . . who freezes, no longer knowing what to do. Who does the zoo sue for loss of the rhino?”
This seems kind of similar to the aviation accident over the South Atlantic, in which an Airbus was flying on autopilot until the autopilot disengaged, announcing, in effect ‘You got the con, boss”…most likely because the pitot tubes had iced over, causing the loss of airspeed information.
The pilots did not exactly freeze, but, taken by surprise, they didn’t recover from the situation.
New post: When Ideology Trumps Everything Else
https://chicagoboyz.net/archives/76071.html
Tiger great Mickey Lolich passes away at 85. RIP.
I don’t know.
As a firm believer in Murphy’s Law I’m not exactly on-board with all this driverless car stuff; and while I’m not exactly in the running for self-driving cars at this point in my life, I’m firmly convinced that were I to find myself driving one that—forget about the glare issue—it would just be a matter of time before a scenario such as, oh say, I tell it to pull into an ice cream parlor or pizzeria, it would respond with something like, “Sorry Barry but I’m afraid I can’t do that…”.
Kinda makes me nervous…
Markets making Gaia a tad jittery…
“321 Quakes Hit San Francisco Bay In A Week – Is The San Andreas Fault Entering A Dangerous New Phase?”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/321-quakes-hit-san-francisco-bay-week-san-andreas-fault-entering-dangerous-new-phase
Not just Gaia, mind you…
Looks like Main Stream Medicine may be taking steps to restore a modicum of sanity…
(Is there anything Trump can’t do?)
“Major Medical Group Advises Against Gender Procedures On Children”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/major-medical-group-advises-against-gender-procedures-children
Mickey Lolich. RIP indeed.
I think I’ve told this story here before, but what the hell. My wife’s uncle, a genuine hero of mine, went to all seven games of the 1968 World Series. One day, before I leave this earth, I’ll do something similar.
The 1968 World Series was won by the Detroit Tigers, who defeated the St. Louis Cardinals 4 games to 3 in a memorable series known as the “Year of the Pitcher”. The Tigers came back from a 1-3 series deficit, with pitcher Mickey Lolich winning three complete games, including the decisive Game 7, to earn the MVP award.
Cap’n Rusty, I’ll keep that in mind if I’m ever driving by a zoo. I’ll keep my hands close to the wheel.
Model Y Tesla
I’ve also looked at that model. Apart from the self driving, they are easily converted to car camping, you can buy fitted mattresses and such. Maybe my next car in a year or two. I expect the technology to keep improving. I do have a preference for knobs over touch screens, so we will see.
Re: Neanderthals are not our loser cousins
I just watched this video:
–“The Neanderthal Problem That Scientists Don’t Want To Discuss”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVR88OdJeng
Actually scientists are discussing it and have been seriously reassessing our relationship with Neanderthals from a separate inferior species to another branch of the family which specialized according to its environments but never lost its ability to interbreed.
I’ve long thought the Neanderthal had gotten a bad rap. Here’s to Homo sapiens neanderthalensis as some now specify.
He ain’t heavy, he’s my brother!
@huxley:scientists are discussing it and have been seriously reassessing our relationship with Neanderthals a separate inferior species
I’d be surprised if any Western scientist since 1980 had ever expressed a value judgment like that about any hominid. Popular culture talks that way; definitely people would get that impression from Clan of the Cave Bear and such.
Hard to watch – Savannah Guthrie posts plea for her mother Nancy’s return – VIDEO
https://commoncts.blogspot.com/2026/02/hard-to-watch-savannah-guthrie-posts.html
Tragic accident where I used to live; high school athletic event, cars parked along a two-lane, 45mph road. Kid jumps out from between vehicles, was hit and killed. No possibility the driver could have stopped. Like to know the timing of he Waymo incident.
Have a new Toyota 2025. The lane minder/assist is pretty cool when the lanes are marked distinctively. Keeps you in the lane. But it demands some human control input from time to time or it lights up and buzzes. If a self-driving car had that feature…it wouldn’t be self-driving.
I suppose lane drift when on limited access roads or long highways with very few stops can lead to lack of attention when the driver doesn’t have to do much. So the minder is probably useful.
The operator’s manual is 350 pages and we still need videos for tech support.
Tesla uses a different approach to programming it assisted driving.
I asked Grok: If i understand tesla’s approach to it’s technology. it uses actual video to learn how to drive and recognize objects such as a cat in the road.
Niketas Choniates:
Get back to me when you have developed a sense of humor and can properly parse it from the written word.
Tommy Jay @ 11:54 describes a situation where a Waymo driven car was unable to detect a child in an unusual situation, requiring human intervention.
Since Tesla uses a different learning strategy than other ADAS, I ran across this video in Tesla’s hardware from mid 2023 to the current year.
The videographer describes how much better the car has gotten in object avoidance in the V14 versions.
Can Tesla Self Driving V14 Dodge These Objects??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoEj59n1iPA
Pretty basic explanation, but can Tesla drive three trips without intervention and beat Waymo at it in San Francisco. The Tesla is a model 3 that you can buy today and was too iterations behind the current software version.
Tesla did need one intervention when there was a construction cone in the middle of the road. The rider intervened, but I think didn’t give Tesla a chance to figure it out.
Anyway, interesting. It does show that Tesla has the best ADAS (Automatic Driving Assistance System) available today.
Tesla vs Waymo, Explained
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6tasPBGw6E
huxley:
“Niketas Choniates:
Get back to me when you have developed a sense of humor and can properly parse it from the written word.”
Don’t hold your breath, huxley