Comment on Tesla Whistleblower Says 'Autopilot' System Is Not Safe Enough To Be Used On Public Roads
dpkonofa@lemmy.world 6 months agoMy pet theory is that people are so erratically different as drivers that the data they’re collecting is too variable to make it useful. Throw in people who aren’t paying attention or are on their phones and Teslas might teach themselves bad behavior.
Takumidesh@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Tbf, Tesla’s are the only cars that actually know you are on your phone and/or not paying attention.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 months ago
And then make you look at and use a giant touchscreen to control anything, taking your attention off the road.
dpkonofa@lemmy.world 6 months ago
That’s not entirely true. They didn’t activate any of the interior cameras until 2022. The majority of their training data doesn’t have that context.
Takumidesh@lemmy.world 6 months ago
So it is true, but it wasn’t true in the past? It can also be disabled by breaking the camera or putting tape over it. The point is that it does do that, which is a true statement.
dpkonofa@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It does do that but the data that was collected to train the AP features was collected before that camera was enabled. So, although it’s there, Tesla didn’t train the cars knowing when people weren’t paying attention. So it does do that now but that’s not helpful for how the cars were trained, which was the actual point of this thread.