Autopilots in road transport, how to interact with specials. by transport?

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A few days ago a man was detained for drunk driving a Tesla car in the “autopilot” mode, and the driver himself was also asleep.

Many questions arose for which there are no answers yet. One of the simplest is why the car was driving by itself, while the person did not show any activity, so that the autopilot worked as expected.


how autopilot works, when a person ignores visual and audio messages - he just stops in the same lane and the emergency light turns on.


that by default it should be so, but something went wrong and they will sort it out. One of the options is that the driver’s head created the necessary effort on the steering wheel and the car’s automation took it for granted. There were several other options for cheating an autopilot. The simplest is an orange. On Model C this focus


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- Not really, even lemons with grapefruits did not help. There are more advanced comrades who already offered technical means for cheating an autopilot .

But, this is all the lyrics, because at the moment, all the “autopilots” are on the 2nd level of automation (perhaps the last update from Tesla has advanced a little further), and this means that all these attempts to circumvent the requirements of automation to control the movement of the car - An attempt to win the Darwin Award.

The second question is why the car did not stop at the request of the law enforcement officers, who acted according to the instructions. They acted according to the instructions, which works with people, but with machines it will not work. I think that after such events, another instruction is already being written for the police, what should they do in the future. In this situation, the case is unique, the person was “off”, and the car drove by itself. In automation, there are no algorithms in which they should cuddle to the side of the road and stop completely if a policeman rides from behind or in front with the flashing beacons on. Even the audio stream is not designed for autopilot. Automation perceived the police car as an ordinary vehicle. When the police “pushed Tesla’s car to the side of the road, there was nothing left for the automation, how to slow down to zero, because it was not possible to go in a straight line. In this regard, the driver of Tesla was lucky that he did not have autopilot turned on in map navigation mode in beta mode. In the early versions of autopilot update 9.0 from Tesla, just in the navigation mode it was possible to set the route and the “aggressiveness” of changing lanes for traffic. In this mode, the autopilot personally made decisions when and how to change lanes for movement, without human intervention, but it was possible to intervene and change lanes when the desired turn signal was turned on, but this was not necessary. And with the option “Mad Max” - it rebuilds very quickly, as for an autopilot. Here are some examples: 0 autopilot from Tesla, just in the navigation mode it was possible to set the route and the “aggressiveness” of changing lanes for traffic. In this mode, the autopilot personally made decisions when and how to change lanes for movement, without human intervention, but it was possible to intervene and change lanes when the desired turn signal was turned on, but this was not necessary. And with the option “Mad Max” - it rebuilds very quickly, as for an autopilot. Here are some examples: 0 autopilot from Tesla, just in the navigation mode it was possible to set the route and the “aggressiveness” of changing lanes for traffic. In this mode, the autopilot personally made decisions when and how to change lanes for movement, without human intervention, but it was possible to intervene and change lanes when the desired turn signal was turned on, but this was not necessary. And with the option “Mad Max” - it rebuilds very quickly, as for an autopilot. Here are some examples: And with the option “Mad Max” - it rebuilds very quickly, as for an autopilot. Here are some examples: And with the option “Mad Max” - it rebuilds very quickly, as for an autopilot. Here are some examples:



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You can see how the car rides on its own and lanes up. But, in the final version, Tesla abandoned this idea,


That is, we can imagine how the guards could react to the usual actions of the autopilot. The car travels along the route to a given point, there is interference in the current lane, it is rebuilt in the left lane and tries to drive further at the maximum permissible speed. At this time, the police see an uncontrolled car, the driver is sleeping and does not react to voice commands to stop the car. Speed ​​is over 100 km / h, this is a potential threat to other road users, the simplest thing they could do was force the car to stop using physical contact and they would be right, according to all their instructions. And at such a speed, a U-turn or a car exit from the road is very unsafe.

Yes, we can say that the driver was drunk and did not understand what he was doing.


the man fell asleep and was driving in a traffic jam. This is not news when people fall asleep while driving. Unfortunately, for this reason, not a small number of accidents occur.

But there are other drivers who consciously ride in the passenger seat



That is, such cases can be more and more. And to ensure the safety of other road users, measures must be taken.

One of the options is to refine the autopilot, which would respond to special signals from vehicles of various services (police, ambulance, firefighters). Musk about it


that they will add this option in the coming months to their neural network. This is a reference to the 3rd version of Autopilot from Tesla with their AI and the new hardware, which will be several orders of magnitude faster than the current one. It sounds great, everyone is waiting, for 2-3 years already. But I have one question. And how much it’s just like that to add an adequate “reaction” to the special. cars with their "chandelier" and sound signals? That is, it must be a level 5 autopilot. Correctly respond to signs, other maneuverable cars, markings and traffic lights. Not every average driver is able to ride without breaking the rules. And here is an additional factor - “light noise cars”. As it turned out, in the process of a recent discussion on Habré in a neighboring topic, not every driver knows what to do, if a police car is driving with blue and red lights turned on. Yes, it’s not difficult for an autopilot to prescribe what to do if cars with lighthouses appeared. I have another question - how will they identify this whole stream of information. This is more complicated than a regular traffic light.

Suppose autopilots have reached such a level that they "see" the police and ambulances a mile away. This is all excellent, I have a reasonable question - will the authorities insist that such services have the ability to remotely stop or slow down cars. I think that they should queue for such an option. Yes, you can imagine that there is a call, a fire, a route is being laid and all the cars on the route of the special. They understand that they need to give in and go aside, and firefighters get to the scene of the fire in 3 minutes. Fantasy. On the other hand, there is a chance that this can be abused. It would not be desirable, but now it is extremely difficult to move the stream of cars to the side when a “live” person is living, who is not very interested in giving way to the next official. Therefore, in my understanding, governments will accept autopilots in the end, but with reservations that at any time we can control as we want. Manufacturers must provide the tools themselves. On the one hand, this is an increase in road safety and an increase in throughput, and on the other hand, your property, a car, not so yours, with the specific desire of individuals.

As a result, we can now ask a rhetorical question, and how far should developments go in terms of autopilots.