I hate to see many users trust Tesla Autopilot for self driving, given what I have learn about image based deep learning for the past years, I know It is far from safe, Coz the world is so complicated it is impossible to reach 100% accuracy by cameras, I am not sure about Lidar though. Edit: TC
No system is 100% safe or can reach 100%. Even humans make mistakes. The question is can it be safer than humans?
That's definitely an oversimplification. Legislators are demanding much more than "safer than humans, on average".
Tesla made a boneheaded decision to sell a product that wasn't ready for a platform that has a limited set of sensors. They can't have an approach of getting self driving working that requires sensors that aren't on vehicles for which they sold the product.
I think the introduction of ViTs for image segmentation + GANs for synthetic image generation could bump up their training data to a reasonable extent. Maybe we’re 30-40% progress into self driving? Also, Op is Amazon hiring for CV engineers? I have a CV background and really interested to jump ship from my current company.
Even humans aren't 100pc accurate
OP, their move to release FSD beta is a game changer. They collect real-world data and edge case examples. Their data company itself will be worth multi billions. I hope if you work in CV you understand the worth of having real-world data.
I am collecting real data too, I am working on the work on an even controlled environment , and I can’t reach 100%, I know Tesla engineer a smarter than me , but I just can’t believe they can make it safe to drive withou human
Each innovation comes with some risks. I feel they are bold enough to try it out without getting sued and people are willing to try it out. So far their safety record is not horrible. Also, since you work in AI we can never guarantee anything but I am happy the field is moving in the right direction.
I agree that ML is sketchy for safety-critical applications like this, and I think that Tesla’s entire approach is unethical. Engineers have an obligation to protect the public, but I’m guessing the Tesla people who understand this and work on these projects have resigned by now.
Dude, they are not forcing it on people. If you don’t wanna try it out feel free to opt out. In fact, early adopters are queuing up for it. Mark my words, apple will never be able to do something similar under Tim, never ever.
Sorry, but they absolutely are forcing it on people… everyone else on the roads
Updated the post. ;-)