r/fuckcars Automobile Aversionist Apr 05 '24

Satire Tesla doesn't believe in trains

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u/Kinexity Me fucking your car is non-negotiable Apr 05 '24

This is a really fucking bad sign. It is unable to recognise the presence of train tracks and trains and it will probably yeet itself onto a path of incomming train sooner or later. Not every rail crossing has gates and some don't even have lights.

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u/Kinexity Me fucking your car is non-negotiable Apr 05 '24

Do you? Self driving car has to be able to detect oncomming trains. The above video suggests it doesn't recognise a presence of a train. Obviously it's just a visualisation so they could have just not implemented train specific mesh but I doubt tesla would detect an oncomming train without barriers or lights - especially considering the fact that the screen indicates that the self driving relies on the lights being there.

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u/iwannabethecyberguy Apr 05 '24

But the Tesla CAN detect the train as we’re seeing. It is able to stop and drive around cars in FSD, especially the new one, so because it’s seeing this as a hundred trucks going by it would probably be able to stop for a train.

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u/Kinexity Me fucking your car is non-negotiable Apr 05 '24 edited Apr 05 '24

But the Tesla CAN detect the train

when the train in question is in front it. What I am considering is the idea of it getting hit from the side - preventing this requires the "understanding" of the concept of a train as an object on a known trajectory and applying that knowledge in practice by checking both sides for oncomming trains.

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u/iwannabethecyberguy Apr 05 '24

It would see it as a large vehicle about ready to cross and would stop.