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Old 07-01-2016, 02:03 PM   #23
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I think it's going to be much harder than most people think. I suspect it's not about a literal blind stop, but about the ability of the computer to interpret complex visual scenes. Possibly, the computer was still able to see the road ahead underneath the trailer and interpreted it as if there was no obstacle.


We are still far from understanding how the brain does it, and much further from being able to apply it in a machine that operates using very different computational principles.
That's part of my point, though. Tesla rushed the product to a public beta while other companies are spending years to make sure it is fully developed, and now someone is dead. They trivialized the complexity.
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