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Tesla Autopilot 'Predicts' Accident Before It Happens (engadget.com)
A dash cam footage suggests a Tesla on Autopilot may have predicted a nearby freeway crash before it actually happened. A video showed that a Tesla car driving on a highway in the Netherlands started to beep a few seconds ahead of two cars colliding with each other in front of it. A Tesla representative confirmed to media that the beeping heard in the video is indeed the sound of Autopilot's Forward Collision Warning. Elon Musk tweeted a news article about the incident, adding more credibility to the matter. From a report on Engadget:Tesla's Autopilot 8.0 has a particularly clever feature: it uses radar to track road activity two cars ahead, helping it avoid danger that you wouldn't normally see. And it now appears that this tech just averted a disaster. Dutch Model X owner Frank van Hoesel has dashcam footage showing his electric crossover reacting to a bad highway crash before it even starts. As you can hear in the video, the Model X's Forward Collision Warning system starts braking when it detects the SUV two vehicles ahead coming to an abrupt stop, even though the driver of the car directly behind it is unaware. The result? Van Hoesel's EV remained untouched when it could easily have contributed to a pile-up.
"predict - say or estimate that (a specified thing) will happen in the future or will be a consequence of something."
"Predict" is exactly what it did. "Predict" doesn't mean the mystical fortune-telling you seem to think it means.
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No, this is a Tesla driver in the Netherlands, who made a dashcam video.
But - but - but - Elon Musk tweeted a news article about the incident, adding more credibility to the matter!
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
It predicted that *it* would crash if it didn't slow down. It didn't predict jack about the collision between the other cars.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
It can see the cars ahead and it saw the SUV breaking so it reacted. It did not predict anything other than a vehicle in front is breaking and it started breaking faster than a human can react.
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You mean the ones that had the advantage of having both cars in view, instead of a blocked view like the Tesla (driver) had. Ah, those cars.
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Musk picks terms to make things sound more impressive than they may actually be. I have seen accidents about to happen and avoided them many times in my many years driving, as I'm sure most of us have. In none of those cases did we go around saying we 'predicted' those accidents. We say we 'detected and avoided' them. That is exactly what this technology did. That should be impressive enough on its own, and its certainly useful, but its not as attention grabbing which is Elon's primary objective. You can argue over the term and say it is technically correct, but get real, its not how we ever describe such a thing in real life.
You're right. This wasn't a "prediction". The car's radar is able to see two cars ahead and saw that traffic was stopped so it put the brakes on and alerted the driver. Impressive performance but not psychic.
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This story must just make it foam at the mouth!
This will save lives, full stop. You can crap all over Elon if you want, but the guy actually gets shit done. No it's not perfect, but it keeps getting better and it is at the point where it will save lives.
I have seen accidents about to happen and avoided them many times in my many years driving, as I'm sure most of us have. In none of those cases did we go around saying we 'predicted' those accidents.
This may say more about your use of english language than anything else.
You saw something about to happen did you?
predict:
verb
say or estimate that (a specified thing) will happen in the future or will be a consequence of something.
English is a rich language. Why use a word like "detected" when you are describing an event that hasn't happened yet? If you're talking about traffic abnormalities then yes you "detected" it. If you're talking about the impending collision then you "predicted" it and then "avoided" it.
But my guess is you were more concerned with heaping shit on Musk / Tesla, which is a shame because all you showed is that his language skills are more impressive than yours may actually be.
Musk picks terms to make things sound more impressive than they may actually be. I have seen accidents about to happen and avoided them many times in my many years driving, as I'm sure most of us have. In none of those cases did we go around saying we 'predicted' those accidents. We say we 'detected and avoided' them. .
Yes but it detected the braking of the car ahead of the car in front, which didn't seem to brake at all until the crash. From the video the braking car was barely visible. That's pretty impressive.