Tesla vehicles have some self-driving or autonomous capabilities through a bundle of features, called Autopilot, which should only be used with a fully attentive driver. If you want to know how Tesla self-driving car works, bookmark this article.
What is Tesla Autopilot?
Autopilot is an advanced driver assistance system that enhances safety and convenience behind the wheel. When used properly, Autopilot reduces your overall workload as a driver.
Features include the ability for the Tesla vehicle to steer, accelerate, and brake – all autonomously and automatically – within its lane. Currently, Autopilot requires driver supervision and does not make your vehicle “fully” autonomous. However, as Autopilot’s self-driving features will evolve over time.
How Tesla Autopilot works?
Built on Deep Neural networks using computer vision. Autopilot uses
cameras, ultrasonic sensors and radar to see & sense the environment
around the car.
What is Computer vision?
Computer Vision, often abbreviated as CV, is defined as a field of study that seeks to develop techniques to help computers “see” and understand the content of digital images such as photographs and videos.
Applications of computer vision:
- Facial Recognition
- Augmented Reality
- Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)
- Computer-aided Diagnosis
- Emotion Detection Software
- Robotics and Machine Automation
Computer Vision Objectives for self-driving cars:
YOLO
You Only Lock Once (YOLO) is a network that uses Deep Learning (DL) algorithms for object detection. YOLO performs object detection by classifying certain objects within the image and determining where they are located on it.
What needs to be Improved?
Like any other technology, autopilot technology is still evolving is going under massive transformation as day passes. The key areas under which the technology needs improvements are:
1. Automation
- No automation
- Driver assistance
- Partial Automation where Tesla stands
- Conditional Automation
- High automation
- Full automation
2. Getting the rules and standards ready
When the AI will rule the roads instead of humans there is a need to establish a new set of road rules and regulations to support and govern the coexistence of self-driven and human driven cars.
If a AI driven car leads to an accident with fatalities, who is to blame? The AI, The Company or the Passenger?
3. Security
With the involvement of computers and an high level of automation, there is always a risk of hacking vehicles and remote accessing or taking control over the driving.
We all remember the zombie mode scene in Fast and Furious 7.
4. We can accidently make SkyNet
We all know what happened in the terminator series which lies upon the story of an Artificial Intelligence system gone rouge. Well no matter how much we can prevent some developer somewhere will miss a vital if statement.
If task == ‘EVIL’: STOP
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