Why emergency braking systems sometimes hit parked cars and lane dividers
What this shows is that Tesla isn’t even on the path to self-driving technology. It sounds like “Autopilot” has no world model (or an extremely basic one)—it ignores stationary objects because it can’t tell whether it’s approaching something on the side of a road that curves away versus an obstacle in the lane. It can’t tell because it doesn’t know what the car is going to do and what the lane is going to do. That’s not the first step to self driving technology. It’s a fundamentally different and simpler technology that isn’t going to evolve into real autonomous driving.