Tesla CEO Elon Musk has finally admitted that he underestimated the difficulty of developing a reliable and safe self-driving vehicle. The entire engineering community rose to their feet and said, "No duh!"It is at least how it should have been in a fair world. Musk was instead told by all the Tesla sycophants, ass-kissers, on Twitter to keep up his good work and that they believed him. They also encouraged him to rush to release the latest version Full Self-Driving software, which, it is worth noting, does NOT allow a Tesla vehicle drive itself without the input of the driver.Musk is known for his long-standing history of underdelivering and overpromising.Musk is known for overpromising and underdelivering on his so-called Full Self-Driving Software. In 2018, Musk did it again, promising that V9 (Version 9), the long-awaited software, would be available in August. In 2019, he did it again, claiming that in a year, there would be more than a million vehicles with complete self-driving and software.He was back in action this weekend, promising FSD 9 beta will ship soon with an additional I swear!, just in case anyone had doubts about his solemnity.Haha! FSD 9 beta will be shipping soon, I swear!Generalized self-driving requires solving large parts of real-world AI. This is a difficult problem. It was not something I expected to find so difficult, but it is evident in retrospect.Reality is the only thing that can give you more freedom than reality. July 3, 2021, Elon Musk (@elonmusk).It is clear that Tesla is more open than other companies to test the beta version of its Autopilot driver assistance feature on customers, in order to gather data and fix any bugs. Tesla customers seem to be fine with this. They regularly flood Musks's comments asking for White-Listing for the current version Full Self-Driving. This has contributed to Tesla's public image as a leader in autonomous-driving, despite the fact that its vehicles are still far from what experts consider a self driving car.Tesla claims Autopilot is safe. It releases quarterly reports that contain selectively reported data. However, it states that this proves that the system also needs constant input from drivers in order for it to work. Waymo and other AV companies have driverless vehicles that can be driven on public roads, providing rides for passengers. Waymo uses, as almost every other AV company, a mixture of sensors like radar, lidar and cameras to ensure that there are redundancies in the event of system failures. Tesla recently switched from a camera-only sensing technology. It is difficult to see the stark contrast between Tesla's self-driving technology and that of any other company.One, I am for Musk being able to take as long as he wishesFor V9's release, I am all for Musk being as flexible as he likes. I think the cake should be baked for as long as necessary, especially after watching videos like the one just out of China that shows a Tesla Model 3 in Autopilot completely failing to make a sharp turn and colliding into a ditch.Anonymous Twitter user @greentheonly posted hacks of Teslas Autopilot and recreated the scene to show how Tesla's driver assist system copes with sharp turns. Greentheonly displays the Teslas Autopilot overlay in the corner of his screen. This shows how the vehicle outputs alerts before it takes over.In regard to the recent Chinese car crash, AP makes sharp turns and exits the roadway.Although I had long wanted to perform a demonstration of a similar condition, I never got around to it.It's really simple to reproducehttps://t.co/B2Ip0G17Ur Green (@greentheonly), July 4, 2021It is not a system that can take a sharp turn in half of the cases. This should not be taken as a sign of weakness. Actually, it's quite the opposite. In fact, the number of open investigations into Tesla Autopilot vehicle crashes seems to be increasing in direct proportion to customer expectations regarding Musk's ability to keep his promises (and break them) over the years.Musk is not the only one to realize that self-driving cars can be difficult. Nearly everyone in the industry predicted that self-driving cars would soon be on our roads. However, they later discovered how difficult it was to get them to drive safely and reliably.Musk can now be greeted with, "Welcome to the party, pal."
