<story><title>Tesla Intrigue Deepens with Musk&apos;s Twitter Barrage</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-04-04/tesla-intrigue-deepens-with-musk-s-twitter-barrage</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yoodenvranx</author><text>&amp;gt; At this point, can it be anything other than full autonomous?&lt;p&gt;There is no way that autonomous driving is going to work in most small European town and villages. There are so many downtowns which were never meant to be used by car and it is already difficult to navigate those places as a human. I just don&amp;#x27;t see how this should work over here in Europe.&lt;p&gt;Selfdriving on the highway or in a typical suburban sprawl in the US? Yes, that might work in the near future. Navigating twisted one-way streets in some old town from the middle ages during rush hour? That will take a long time to do this fully autonomously.</text></item><item><author>grecy</author><text>Unveil part 2 is &amp;quot;super next-level&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;And the &amp;quot;steering controls and system feels like a spaceship&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;And Musk tweeted a little while ago about getting a special team of Software Engineers reporting directly to him for self-driving that was &amp;quot;top priority&amp;quot; within the company.&lt;p&gt;And there are no gauges directly in front of the driver at all, which has been confirmed to be like that for production.&lt;p&gt;At this point, can it be anything other than full autonomous?
(and maybe you&amp;#x27;ll have to take over sometimes, but I&amp;#x27;m thinking 95%+ of the time it will be driving itself)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Mvandenbergh</author><text>I actually think that low speed driving and parking in very narrow streets is much easier for an autonomous system than for a person. All those obstacles are made of stone so nice juicy returns for the sensor systems. Carrying out a turn with a centimetre of clearance from a hard surface is much easier for a computer than maintaining lane discipline on a road with faded markings at high speed.</text></comment>
<story><title>Tesla Intrigue Deepens with Musk&apos;s Twitter Barrage</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-04-04/tesla-intrigue-deepens-with-musk-s-twitter-barrage</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yoodenvranx</author><text>&amp;gt; At this point, can it be anything other than full autonomous?&lt;p&gt;There is no way that autonomous driving is going to work in most small European town and villages. There are so many downtowns which were never meant to be used by car and it is already difficult to navigate those places as a human. I just don&amp;#x27;t see how this should work over here in Europe.&lt;p&gt;Selfdriving on the highway or in a typical suburban sprawl in the US? Yes, that might work in the near future. Navigating twisted one-way streets in some old town from the middle ages during rush hour? That will take a long time to do this fully autonomously.</text></item><item><author>grecy</author><text>Unveil part 2 is &amp;quot;super next-level&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;And the &amp;quot;steering controls and system feels like a spaceship&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;And Musk tweeted a little while ago about getting a special team of Software Engineers reporting directly to him for self-driving that was &amp;quot;top priority&amp;quot; within the company.&lt;p&gt;And there are no gauges directly in front of the driver at all, which has been confirmed to be like that for production.&lt;p&gt;At this point, can it be anything other than full autonomous?
(and maybe you&amp;#x27;ll have to take over sometimes, but I&amp;#x27;m thinking 95%+ of the time it will be driving itself)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>philfrasty</author><text>One scenario that I keep thinking about all the time: traffic in most south-east asian countries like Vietnam (Hanoi for example). The streets are occupied by a mix of cars, pedestrians (+ animals) and motorcycles. Everything moves ultra close.&lt;p&gt;Must be a nightmare for every car proximity-sensor.</text></comment>