Oh, it seems I misunderstood you. I took it as a general statement outside of the context of a drivetrain conversion.
I would not say “very little you can actually do”. For example, the death rate from road injuries has gone down steadily over the last 40 years (and probably even longer).
I assume you mean the “AVs”. I adapted it to “autonomous vehicle tech”. Literally it would just be “autonomous vehicles” but I don’t think that conveys the correct meaning.
Level 3 from Mercedes is more expensive though.
Other level 2 systems do not allow you to take your hands off and will probably annoy you with some kind of warnings. Wasn’t it Tesla where you could squeeze an orange into the wheel to trick the system?
Anyways, I agree with you that this isn’t worth the price.
Hm, I didn’t get a paywall.
This seems to be an alternative by CNN.
Am I the only one irritated by the title? Why is it „Biden administration“ and not „The US“?
Here is a recent article from Forbes. Here is another one. And another one.
So has happened or did not happen?
The point of the author seems that autopilot is better than FSD for him:
Without FSD, you pay attention to the road and everything else is within your control. With FSD, you still need to pay attention but now there’s the additional cognitive load to monitor an unpredictable system over which you don’t have direct control. Forget about just being focused, you need to be hyper-focused, and you need to pay $99 per month or a one time fee of $12,000 for the privilege. With the limited functionality of autopilot, you hit the sweet spot: adaptive cruise control and lane centering work reliably, and you don’t need to worry about any other mischief.
My guess, because it is too expensive for too little benefit. Nobody would buy it. Discussed here previously.
According to forecasts from Counterpoint Research, China will have 1mn cars with so-called Level 3 technology — which means drivers can remove their hands from the steering wheel — by 2026, and these vehicles will account for about 10 per cent of new cars by 2028.
Oh, here the author is not quite right. I assume he refers to SAE level 3. This is not about “remove their hands from the steering wheel”. If you still have to “constantly supervise” the car, you are still level 2. Some call “hands-off” as level 2.5, but it certainly isn’t enough for level 3.
So far, actual level 3 cars are only made by Honda, Mercedes, and BMW. The upgrade costs thousands of dollars and is only available in few luxury cars.
I can imagine 1mn “hands-off” cars in 2026 but not “level 3”.
There were lots of german articles three days ago already but this seems to be the first english one. Somehow this wasn’t really picked up internationally.
I guess freeway is a hard limit. Other streets are more complex because of people and whatnot. GPS makes it easy to check.
Speed should also be a hard limit because a safe stop is much easier at slow speeds. More time to react and less pressure on sensor capabilities.
Traffic jam is probably not necessary but why would you drive that slowly on a freeway otherwise?
Not sure about daytime. It could be that it is just that the video camera doesn’t work well enough such that the system deactivates a lot.
There are no immediate plans for the OEMs to sell level 4 cars. They would have to charge you at least ten times as much for it if you compare the hardware of level 3 Mercedes with a Waymo taxi. Level 4 will only be available as taxi service for quite a while.
The article mentions “2030” but that seems incredibly naive to me. They will probably just expand the use cases for Drive Pilot until then: Higher speeds, more street types, night time, more weather conditions, more edge cases like construction zones, etc.
More precisely, you can record yourself stuck in a traffic jam.
Drivers can activate Mercedes’s technology, called Drive Pilot, when certain conditions are met, including in heavy traffic jams, during the daytime, on specific California and Nevada freeways, and when the car is traveling less than 40 mph.
Nice, but what does China get out of that?
It seems to be happening across the whole industry except the chinese EVs.
If you pressure people into early retirement, it isn’t a layoff. winkwink