[HN Gopher] Tesla FSD Beta 10 veers into pedestrians with illega...
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       Tesla FSD Beta 10 veers into pedestrians with illegal right turn
        
       Author : jeffbee
       Score  : 52 points
       Date   : 2021-09-15 22:07 UTC (55 minutes ago)
        
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       | obilgic wrote:
       | Misleading/Exaggerated HN title. Not an illegal turn. No turn
       | sign applies to the left lane, and it's a one way street
        
         | bagels wrote:
         | Agree, it didn't hit anything, even though it might've without
         | intervention. "into" is the misleading part.
        
           | gpm wrote:
           | Right, and it didn't "veer" either, it performed a normal
           | turn.
           | 
           | The pedestrians had just started crossing, so it was in the
           | wrong, but _barely_. It 's the sort of manoeuvre that you see
           | human drivers do all the time.
        
             | awsthro00945 wrote:
             | The entire talking point of FSD is that it's supposed to be
             | _better_ than human drivers. This ain 't it.
             | 
             | >it didn't "veer" either, it performed a normal turn.
             | 
             | The definition of veer is "to change direction". This did
             | that. Stop arguing semantics.
             | 
             | >The pedestrians had just started crossing
             | 
             | I fail to see how this matters at all. Even if the
             | pedestrians hadn't started crossing yet, and were still on
             | the sidewalk, it would have been wrong for the Tesla to
             | make the turn without yielding to the peds.
        
             | howinteresting wrote:
             | The Twitter user is located in MA, and the driver handbook
             | says (https://www.mass.gov/doc/drivers-manual/download,
             | page 85):
             | 
             | "You must yield to pedestrians entering or using a
             | crosswalk in your travel path."
             | 
             | At least one pedestrian was unambiguously "using a
             | crosswalk" in the car's travel path, and the other one was
             | entering the crosswalk as well. I wouldn't consider this a
             | marginal case.
             | 
             | I think Teslas are otherwise great cars but I would never
             | use FSD in a million years. I think it should be banned on
             | public streets until it's gone through testing that is far
             | more rigorous.
        
               | loeg wrote:
               | The video is from Seattle, but the same yield-to-
               | pedestrians-in-crosswalks applies here, too.
        
             | trangus_1985 wrote:
             | > so it was in the wrong, but barely
             | 
             | when it comes to hitting pedestrians, i dont think you can
             | shade that in terms of "barely". either it is or isnt
        
             | notJim wrote:
             | If you look at the blue track on the screen, the car is
             | indicating it's going to go straight, not that it plans to
             | turn right. I think the word veer is applicable because it
             | is sudden and unexpected. If this was only a mistimed right
             | turn, I might feel differently.
        
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         | BugsJustFindMe wrote:
         | > _Not an illegal turn._
         | 
         | https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio...
         | 
         | California Vehicle Code section 22108: Any signal of intention
         | to turn right or left shall be given continuously during the
         | last 100 feet traveled by the vehicle before turning.
         | 
         | Every other state has similar laws. I've included the one for
         | Washington state below for nitpickers.
         | 
         | The Tesla was not signaling before or during that turn. That on
         | its own makes the turn illegal.
        
           | obilgic wrote:
           | I don't think that is California though..
        
             | eightysixfour wrote:
             | Yes, that's Seattle.
        
             | BugsJustFindMe wrote:
             | You're right! Someone else says it's Seattle, so let's
             | see...
             | 
             | https://app.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=46.61.305
             | 
             | RCWs > Title 46 > Chapter 46.61 > Section 46.61.305
             | 
             | (1) No person shall turn a vehicle or move right or left
             | upon a roadway unless and until such movement can be made
             | with reasonable safety nor without giving an appropriate
             | signal in the manner hereinafter provided.
             | 
             | (2) A signal of intention to turn or move right or left
             | when required shall be given continuously during not less
             | than the last one hundred feet traveled by the vehicle
             | before turning.
             | 
             | Do we think that every state in the US doesn't have a
             | similar law?
        
           | shepherdjerred wrote:
           | This is pedantic. Human drivers routinely don't use their
           | turn signals.
        
             | stefan_ wrote:
             | What is the end-game here? What do you possibly want to
             | argue? The car was perfectly aware it was making a turn,
             | but decided to not use the turn signal because.. peer
             | pressure?
             | 
             | It's baffling.
        
           | gruez wrote:
           | Isn't that just "failing to signal a turn"? If you told me
           | someone made an "illegal turn", I'd think they made right on
           | a intersection with a non right turn sign.
        
           | loeg wrote:
           | > California Vehicle Code
           | 
           | This is Seattle, under the monorail (5th Ave).
        
             | BugsJustFindMe wrote:
             | You're right and I noted the section of the washington
             | state driving code that applies. I'm pretty sure that every
             | state in the US has a variant of this same law and picking
             | the wrong one doesn't matter for the purposes of this
             | thread.
        
               | loeg wrote:
               | Sure, but it's weird to bring up CA vehicle law,
               | _specifically_ , when it's completely irrelevant. You
               | could have made the broader point without the irrelevant
               | detail.
        
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       | gallerdude wrote:
       | I don't know how the UX works, but it seems like it de-activated
       | itself when it got closer to the pedestrians? Or was that a
       | manual override?
        
         | bagels wrote:
         | If you hit brakes or steer, it disengages.
        
       | awsthro00945 wrote:
       | The video in the Tweet replies is even worse, IMO:
       | https://twitter.com/TaylorOgan/status/1437743602579423233
       | 
       | The Tesla FSD would've caused a t-bone in the first two clips,
       | and a head-on collision at decent speed in the third clip. Yikes.
        
         | bagels wrote:
         | How long can they get away with charging 10k for something that
         | is trying to crash the car in to bits?
        
       | BugsJustFindMe wrote:
       | Shitty sudden turn against the no-turn sign without using a turn
       | signal aside, why was it turning right at all when the route
       | showed it going straight for another several blocks and then
       | turning left?
        
         | GravitasFailure wrote:
         | I've dealt with similar but less extreme behavior in lane
         | keeping systems where it senses the right-side reference
         | veering away so it "corrects" and follows, causing a veer to
         | the right, so it might not have been trying to turn but instead
         | drive next to the crosswalk at the same distance it was from
         | the curb. Regardless of what happened, that's a really bad bug
         | to have.
        
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       | Aliabid94 wrote:
       | If you have to anxiously hover your hands over the wheel
       | constantly like the driver is in this video, is it really helpful
       | even if it doesn't crash? I don't own a Tesla, curious how other
       | drivers are when on Autopilot.
        
         | notJim wrote:
         | This is the city-driving beta that's only available to a small
         | number of people. I have read that at this point, it is more
         | stressful than driving yourself, but it is not yet at the point
         | where anything more is expected.
        
         | shepherdjerred wrote:
         | Test driving a Tesla Model 3 with autopilot last year was one
         | of the most stressful experiences I've ever had. It's not at
         | all intuitive, and I had no idea what autopilot would/wouldn't
         | handle.
        
           | aclatuts wrote:
           | It might be worth it for Tesla to build a voice system to
           | tell the driver what manoeuvres the car will be doing soon.
           | 
           | Although implementing might be just as hard as self driving
           | in the first place.
        
         | yakkityyak wrote:
         | The cognitive load of using FSD in a city honestly seems more
         | than driving yourself. The car is no longer an extension of
         | yourself, where you navigate the road carefully. Instead you
         | are constantly trying to predict and determine if FSD is going
         | to screw up, and how to quickly react to said screw up.
        
         | bfung wrote:
         | Recently got a Tesla without Full Self Driving (FSD) for many
         | reasons (it's $10k for a full install as one). Autopilot is now
         | like a product name that has several features and FSD is a
         | different beast. Within Autopilot, there's an Autosteer (Beta)
         | feature.
         | 
         | The Autosteer seems to work decently well on highway without
         | hover hands, but it does require no sharp turns and any traffic
         | or stop and go isn't what it was built for. I can def. see it
         | nice when doing longer road trips.
         | 
         | That said, I've turned Autosteer on several times and maybe 70%
         | comfortable with it. It does like to hug the right side of a
         | lane, and when I'm in the very right lane on the freeway with
         | on-ramps and exits, there have been times I didn't want to take
         | any chances and assumed full control of steering, or else it
         | drifts into the exit lane and gets back into the right lane,
         | depending on the road lines and how they're drawn. This is with
         | me having knowledge of how computer vision works - I wonder how
         | anyone w/o tech knowledge can put their full trust into these
         | things or to manage the situations correctly.
         | 
         | So even w/o the full FSD feature, I think there's still some
         | work to do on the Autopilot autosteer (it could be a subset of
         | FSD, maybe different ML models all together underneath) - and
         | city driving FSD probably needs even more work.
         | 
         | https://www.tesla.com/support/autopilot#capability-features
        
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       | drooby wrote:
       | Level 3+ requires AGI for unmapped non-highway roads. Change my
       | mind.
        
         | bagels wrote:
         | What is agi?
        
           | Aliabid94 wrote:
           | Artificial general intelligence, the ability to generalize
           | the way humans can.
        
           | ddlutz wrote:
           | artificial general intelligence
        
       | camjohnson26 wrote:
       | Remember this is the build that Elon Musk said was almost ready
       | for public release and would "blow your mind",
       | https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1435967157662150675?s=20
       | 
       | But there have been plenty of failures, and remember that the
       | only people who have the beta are employees who are presumably
       | under an NDA, and devoted fans who have publicly said they don't
       | want to post the disengagements because critics "take them out of
       | context"
       | 
       | Other failures:
       | 
       | https://twitter.com/28delayslater/status/1437866328950517768...
       | 
       | https://twitter.com/BS__Exposed/status/1437367617468129280?s...
       | 
       | https://twitter.com/TaylorOgan/status/1437385266046586890?s=...
       | 
       | https://twitter.com/bagguley/status/1437328015789367297?s=20
       | 
       | https://twitter.com/TaylorOgan/status/1437405124004089863?s=...
       | 
       | https://twitter.com/BS__Exposed/status/1437043592560791552?s...
       | 
       | https://twitter.com/bagguley/status/1437048381042475008?s=20
       | 
       | https://twitter.com/BS__Exposed/status/1436806907663159299?s...
        
         | bagels wrote:
         | Looks like we are pretty close to robotaxi.
        
       | mensetmanusman wrote:
       | It would be super interesting for Tesla to release context after
       | these events, e.g. this is the 628,392,292th right turn this
       | year.
        
       | ogwh wrote:
       | Why is everyone freaking out over a beta test with a driver at
       | the wheel ready to take over immediately? It's a beta test,
       | finding bugs is kind of the point.
       | 
       | Or have we truly reached the point now where we expect "stable"
       | software to be of the same calibre as beta software so nobody
       | makes a distinction between the two?
        
         | woofyman wrote:
         | Because it's a 5000 lb weapon and the pedestrians didn't
         | consent to the beta.
        
         | colechristensen wrote:
         | Because a car is a life critical system and nobody should want
         | an automated vehicle, even if controlled by a human, to
         | "accidentally" try to run over some humans. I doubt the pilot's
         | ability to stop all missteps before an injury.
         | 
         | The car should be _much_ safer before it goes on the road,
         | regardless of test status. This was a near miss and should be
         | taken extremely seriously by highway safety regulators.
         | 
         | >Or have we truly reached the point now where we expect
         | "stable" software to be of the same calibre as beta software so
         | nobody makes a distinction between the two?
         | 
         | I expect every vehicle on the road to meet a safety standard. I
         | do not accept "beta software" tests on public roads if this is
         | the kind of mistake they can make.
        
       | dham wrote:
       | I've been using Open Pilot for the last 3 months (Rav4 Hybrid).
       | I've really enjoyed it a lot on the highways. It also works
       | really well in stop and go traffic.
       | 
       | I'm starting to agree with George Hotz about making driving
       | chill. Highway driving is chill. Stop and go traffic is chill.
       | There's nothing chill about letting a car drive in these
       | situations (pulling out intersections, right hand turn on red,
       | congested streets with people everywhere) and I'm very used to my
       | car driving itself. There's nothing chill about your car having
       | unlimited torque on the steering wheel where it can do something
       | gnarly. Making your car do these maneuvers has the opposite
       | effect, making you more stressed rather than taking the stress
       | away.
       | 
       | I'll stick to open pilot for now. I'd rather just drive in these
       | situations. With Tesla FSD you already have to have your hand on
       | the wheel, might as well put your foot on the pedals.
        
         | ProAm wrote:
         | Which version of Open Pilot?
        
           | dham wrote:
           | 0.8.8 in laneless mode. Comma 2. Decided not to return and
           | get Comma 3 because 2 does everything I need it to do right
           | now.
        
       | improv32 wrote:
       | This is in Seattle, on 5th ave. The concrete pillars are the
       | monorail track. The street confused me driving as a human
       | sometimes. There are more videos of the Tesla software being
       | confused on this particular street floating around
        
         | loeg wrote:
         | This street slightly confuses me, too, but I've never decided
         | to suddenly and without signaling dive into the crosswalk when
         | pedestrians were in it.
        
       | modeless wrote:
       | I believe that it is not illegal to turn right there. Both
       | streets are one way, and the "no right turn" sign is for the
       | lanes to the left of the pillars.
       | 
       | For context, these pillars in the middle of the road are handled
       | poorly by Tesla FSD and this guy is repeatedly stress testing the
       | system by forcing it to drive there, for YouTube videos. The
       | latest FSD build is the first one that actually recognizes the
       | pillars as obstacles; earlier builds would simply plow into them.
       | What I'm speculating happened here is the new obstacle detection
       | failed and decided that the road ahead was blocked, so the path
       | planner decided it had to turn right despite that not tracking
       | the planned route.
       | 
       | As far as the pedestrians, it looks to me like there was plenty
       | of space to turn into the near lane without hitting them, and the
       | pedestrians shouldn't have been starting to cross while the red
       | hand was flashing, but of course a law abiding driver should
       | yield in this situation.
        
         | BugsJustFindMe wrote:
         | It is illegal to turn right there without signaling though.
        
       | lmilcin wrote:
       | "Not perfect".
       | 
       | Yes, killing pedestrians is not perfect.
       | 
       | I mean, seriously. You are too fucking optimistic guys. Go back
       | to the drawing board. If your program can do that you are way off
       | from the target.
        
       | nodesocket wrote:
       | 2021 Model Y Owner. Hard to tell, but it looks like that street
       | is a one-way heading right which is legal. However, not yielding
       | for pedestrians is no bueno though they were just barely off the
       | sidewalk into the street when it turned.
        
         | jdminhbg wrote:
         | It's a one-way to the right but there's a no right turn sign on
         | the pillar to the left of the street as you approach it. Not
         | signed great, but still not a legal turn.
        
           | notJim wrote:
           | I think that sign applies to the left lane only. It's to stop
           | you from turning right from the left lane. I think turning
           | right from the lane the car is in is legal.
        
         | benjaminjackman wrote:
         | There is sign on the wire near the traffic light that says no
         | turns, not sure if it only applies to the other lane though.
        
           | gpm wrote:
           | There's also a sign on this half of the traffic wire that
           | looks like it might be saying "yes turns" (low resolution,
           | but I can't imagine what the sign says with an arrow pointing
           | right other then that)
        
             | Alupis wrote:
             | That sign says "One Way". Not "yes turns"... I don't think
             | I've ever seen a sign saying that, actually, it's either
             | "No Turns" or no sign at all, since by default turns are
             | allowed.
        
           | nodesocket wrote:
           | Ahhhhh I see the no right turn sign on the pillar. That is
           | confusing as there are also one-way signs (with arrows
           | pointing to the right) further along.
           | 
           | Moral of the story, do you think most humans would do a
           | better job at this intersection than the Tesla did?
        
             | blankobj wrote:
             | That sign in the pillar, if I was driving, I would assume
             | applied to the other lane on the left side of the pillar. I
             | think the intent is to make sure you don't turn left if you
             | are in the right lane of the pillar side, and vice versa.
        
         | rocketraman wrote:
         | There is a no right turn sign on the post to the left of the
         | vehicle just before it begins the turn.
        
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