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11 Hours Later And The Tesla ADAS Team Is Still Testing Chuck's Unprotected Left Hand Turn: Elon Musk Responds With TWO Comments

Tesla's ADAS team is one dedicated team. For 11 hours straight, they've been testing Chuck's unprotected left-hand turn and gathering data to train the FSD AI system. Elon Musk responds to this.
11 Hours Later and the Tesla ADAS Driver Team Is Still Testing Chuck's Unprotected Left Hand Turn: Elon Musk Responds With TWO Comments To Chuckv

Real Dedication - 11 Hours of ADAS Testing for Tesla FSD

Tesla's ADAS (advanced driver assistance system) has been testing Chuck's unprotected left-hand turn in Florida for 11 hours today, as stated by Chuck himself, as he watches them constantly testing this very tricky and dangerous section of road. Elon Musk had a couple responses to this and self-driving cars in general.

Summary:

  • The importance of video training data: The importance of getting as much video training - quality video training - as possible to teach Tesla cars to drive.
  • The complicated nature of Chuck's turn: Chuck's left-hand turn requires a complicated and dangerous maneuver - that isn't normal.
  • Elon Musk's first response: Elon Musk talks about self-driving cars being everywhere, being about a decade away.
  • Elon Musk's second response: Elon Musk talks about needing to drive and get data for a wide range of adversarial conditions.
  • My Own Opinion: What I think about all of this.

It's important for Tesla to get appropriate video data to train its neural net with. This is done by driving around and capturing video of situations. The car will then be trained on these video to make the correct maneuvers from what it saw done correctly and safely.

The important note here is that this video data must be high quality and done safely so that the car uses that as its standard for driving and handling that scenario.

Elon Musk responded with two comments regarding Chuck's unprotected left-hand turn here, as well as a comment about self-driving cars in general.

The Complicated Nature of Chuck's Left-Hand Turn

You see, Chuck's unprotected left-hand turn is not your normal unprotected left-hand turn. It is a left turn done across two sections of traffic with multiple lanes each. The first is going right, and the top section is going left. There is a small section of median the car can go in before completing the turn. It requires looking at and navigating two cross-sections of traffic at the same time.

This requires intense training, and Tesla needs to get it right and have every case handled.

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Elon Musk's Comments - A Decade For Self-Driving Cars Being Everywhere

Elon Musk first said this about self-driving cars:

It will take at least a decade before a majority of cars are self-driving, but this is a legitimate concern in that time horizon.

Of more immediate concern is that it is already possible to severely ostracize someone simply by freezing their credit cards and bank account, as happened, for example, in Canada with the trucker protest.

Elon Musk says a couple of things here, but the first is that it will take a decade before the majority of cars are self-driving and also responded with this statement in regard to people who want to drive their own car and feel like they are giving up their freedom to enter a self-driving car.

A decade is a long time, but we will see some self-driving cars before that for sure, in my opinion, in locations that steadily grow throughout the U.S., and then in the world. It will be too economical and cheap to use a self-driving car to travel instead of your own cars, insurance, maintenance, and fuel.

Elon Musk Responds To Chuck

Elon Musk's second response was directly to Chuck, who was talking about watching the ADAS team at Tesla working hard to test his unprotected left-hand turn.

He then had this to say about it:

Gathering video training data over a wide range of adversarial conditions.

Chuck said, "Awesome! Thanks for the update!"

This is true about what Tesla is doing - it has to be able to handle every single scenario there is. I would bet that Tesla is going to test situations in every single city in the United States and test it well for the future. That way, there is no situation it can't handle.

It all comes down to video data now, and Tesla will do extra video training for those situations that require just a little more video data than regular driving.

For Further Reading: Tesla FSD "Smooth Like Butter" As It Makes Unprotected Left-Hand Turn

What do you think about Elon Musk responding to Chuck about these unprotected left-hand turns? Are self-driving cars being everywhere a decade away?

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