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"In March, Jensen Huang, chief executive of computer chip giant NVIDIA,
declared the “ChatGPT moment” for self-driving cars had arrived. In Australia,
Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) system is already available on public roads.
Waymo is exploring robotaxi operations in Australia.
The question is no longer whether autonomous driving will arrive, but whether
Australia is ready to operate it safely, efficiently and sustainably. This
raises an infrastructure question: can roads, bridges and intersections
designed for human drivers also be understood by machines?
Over the past 100-plus days, my colleagues and I have used a Tesla Model Y with
FSD every day on Queensland roads. We recorded more than 500 safety-critical
events where the system required driver intervention or revealed an important
limitation in how it interpreted the road environment.
To make some of these observations useful beyond our own research, we initiated
White Box Autonomy as a public archive of events where autonomous vehicles hit
problems in real-world conditions.
Two things stood out. First, the technology is already far more capable than
many people realise. In many cases the vehicle handled the driving task
smoothly, with a precision that is hard for a human driver to match.
Second, it is also less capable than many people assume. It occasionally
struggled with situations human drivers handle almost automatically, making
mistakes that were surprising and sometimes dangerous because they weren’t the
kinds of errors an experienced driver would make."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
