Yazata
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Driving across San Francisco on Tesla FSD (Full Self Driving) Beta 10.12.2 (A new much improved FSD release is supposed to come out this coming week.) The videos show the AI robot car dealing with stop lights, traffic lanes, bicycles, motorcycles, cars cutting in and out, double parked delivery trucks, pedestrians, opening car doors... And to think that just a few years ago in the days of the DARPA challenges, the idea of a full-self-driving robot car in urban traffic would have been total science-fiction.
The first video shows the car traveling across San Francisco south to north, from Bernal Heights (a middle class neighborhood in the south central part of the city) up VanNess to Marina Green where it backs into a parking spot. Then a bonus trip through the Marina (exceedingly upscale bayfront neighborhood) to the Palace of Fine Arts. Watch with the sound on, on full screen.
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The second video crosses San Francisco west (somewhere near Laurel Heights in the fog belt) to east in North Beach, traveling along some of San Francisco's steepest streets along the way. Again, sound on, full screen.
Compare the view through the windshield with the image on the "dashboard" screen. The windshield displays real life, the screen shows what the car is "aware" of and what it "intends" to do. And check out the tactile blue feeler out in front of the car on the screen. When the car is stopped at a traffic light, it's grey, displaying what the car is "thinking" about doing. Then when the car starts to move it turns bright blue, showing what the car is actually in the process of doing.
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The first video shows the car traveling across San Francisco south to north, from Bernal Heights (a middle class neighborhood in the south central part of the city) up VanNess to Marina Green where it backs into a parking spot. Then a bonus trip through the Marina (exceedingly upscale bayfront neighborhood) to the Palace of Fine Arts. Watch with the sound on, on full screen.
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The second video crosses San Francisco west (somewhere near Laurel Heights in the fog belt) to east in North Beach, traveling along some of San Francisco's steepest streets along the way. Again, sound on, full screen.
Compare the view through the windshield with the image on the "dashboard" screen. The windshield displays real life, the screen shows what the car is "aware" of and what it "intends" to do. And check out the tactile blue feeler out in front of the car on the screen. When the car is stopped at a traffic light, it's grey, displaying what the car is "thinking" about doing. Then when the car starts to move it turns bright blue, showing what the car is actually in the process of doing.
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