Tesla Autopilot VS Human Biker Test :-)
Human on a Bicycle TESLA Collision Tests Will Mike go SPLAT!
Tesla Autopilot Kill Bikers? LETS FIND OUT! Human Collision Test!
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Prompted by a Article written by
"Heather Knight", a Roboticist and
researcher at Stanford University,
Titled "Tesla Autopilot Review: Bikers
will DIE" , Myself and my Trusty
sidekick Mike, took it upon ourselves
yet AGAIN to Test out Tesla Autopilot
against a Real, Live, Human on a Bicycle.
Here are our Results...
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SUCCESS
It detected and stopped for a bike
in the middle of the lane. Though, it
saw the bike as a "Car", most likely
due to it being long ways in the lane,
the width reflects back to the radar
more so like a "Car" then a bike.
SUCCESS
This time, even though I was
quite far back when I activated
Autopilot, it detected the bike so
quickly & soon that it wouldn't even
let the car get to the set speed of
25mph.
SUCCESS
The Tesla's Radar saw Mike & bike,
and stopped for him. It appears due to
the bike being Long-Ways in the lane,
between the Radar & Camera, it had
detected at distance, however, became
"Unsure" of itself once stopped. Tesla's
are programmed on the side of caution,
as such, required driver to check for
vehicles & people before resuming.
SUCCESS & Partial Fail
Interesting Result! Somewhat expected
though based on our tests from last year.
The Tesla Model S slowed down, and followed
Mike. Once Mike moved over to the shoulder
of the road, the car attempted to resume it's
course and speed. Unfortunately, at this
point, the radar could no longer see the Bike
and the Side Sonar did not appear to detect
it quick enough before Driver took over, and
could have resulted in a Minor hit.
Though, also note, We are testing using the
old Autopilot 1.0 Hardware. Autopilot 1.0 Sonar
has a maximum range of 4ft (1.22 meters), where
as Autopilot 2.0 hardware (What is being used
currently in Tesla Production for Model S, X, & 3)
has a range of 8 ft (2.44 meters) may be enough
to have detected the bike from the side. Also,
hardware 2.0 incorporates the use of 8 cameras
giving a 360* Visual to the computer, where as
autopilot 1.0 only has a single forward facing
camera.
PASS/FAIL
Pass = The Model S detected the bike
and slowed the vehicle down.
Fail= Vehicle did not bring itself
to a complete stop.
Instead of a complete stop, the Autopilot
Panicked and sounded collision alert. In this
case, the swerving "drunk driving" of Mike,
brought him in and out of the radars detection
zone. As such, when the car was too close to
maintain a lock on him, sounded the collision
alert for driver to take over.
Complicated
I, as the driver became nervous. I touched
the steering wheel, result, deactivating
autopilot. However, after touching the steering
wheel, Autopilot deactivates and becomes TACC
(Traffic Aware Cruise Control). TACC is similar to
Autopilot, only does NOT steer the car. It can
still bring the vehicle to a complete stop and
activate collision avoidance.
In this case, TACC slowed the vehicle down
until the bike was clear of the vehicles path,
then the car resumed it's speed.
Mixed Emotions
The car did see the bike last second, and did
attempt to slow the vehicle. However, it did not
do so quick enough. The car COULD detect the
bike at a far enough distance away, however,
it took too long for the car to be able to
determine if the bike was going to cross paths
or wait for the car to pass. By the point it made
a determination, Accident Avoidance became
Accident Mitigation, or in other words, the car
did it's best to reduce the damage that would be
caused from a inevitable collision.
Conclusion
While Autopilot is not Full Autonomous, it
has remarkable Collision Avoidance features
especially for only having Autopilot Version 1.
With Version 2 hardware out and the software
updates bring all it's hardware online piece by
piece, the only thing that can happen is more
improvements. While shaky, I'd need to say the
only way Autopilot will kill Bikers is if the Driver
of the car is Drunk, completely distracted (Mis-
Using Auto-pilot as if it were Full Autonomous)
or asleep. Used as designed, it will SAVE lives.
Tests would be the same for Model X, Model S, Model 3