Watch TheMayor_McCheese's clip titled "Robotaxi misses left-turn and drives into oncoming traffic lane casually"
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Video is pretty scary. The software doesn’t even seem to have a remote idea of what commands it should be sending to the steering system, but it sends the commands anyway, causing it to jerk back and forth between “I think I turn here” and “I think I go straight.”
What cities are these garbage cars being tested in, so I can avoid driving, biking, or walking there?
By burnt-resistor 2025-06-290:51 After wrecking the suspension of 2 e-scooters downtown from craptastic roads, I can say nothing of value would be lost from avoiding downtown ATX.
By foobarbecue 2025-06-2914:08 Scary indeed. Steering input looks like it's an unstable (increasing amplitude) oscillator.
By nablaxcroissant 2025-06-292:112 reply This seems like a failure mode where LIDAR wouldn't have helped. A completely flat and mostly empty road where the only real features are lane lines seems to be entirely a vision issue. Not really an excuse for tesla considering vision should be what they are good at, but the whole LIDAR issue seems to be overemphasized.
By op00to 2025-06-292:40 > flat … empty … only real features are lane lines
You mean a road? This is hilariously awful.
By lolc 2025-06-296:18 I'm pretty sure other companies solve this with very precise maps of lanes. Tesla still relies on vision only apparently.
Lidar could help by providing accurate positioning. Though I guess cameras should be good enough for lane position when they scan surrounding features too.
By lolc 2025-06-296:27 Looks like they don't have lane-accurate maps and are still following their vision-only doctrine.
