<story><title>The Battle for Best Semi-Autonomous System: Tesla Autopilot vs. GM SuperCruise</title><url>http://www.thedrive.com/tech/17083/the-battle-for-best-semi-autonomous-system-tesla-autopilot-vs-gm-supercruise-head-to-head</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Animats</author><text>GM did a nice job there. They have a good solution to the &amp;quot;expecting the driver to watch and take over&amp;quot; problem. Their system watches the driver constantly to make sure they&amp;#x27;re in position to take over, but doesn&amp;#x27;t require a hand on the wheel. GM is also more careful about when to allow the control system to engage.&lt;p&gt;Tesla&amp;#x27;s crashes on &amp;quot;autopilot&amp;quot; have mostly been in situations where the system should have detected an obstacle. Four times, a Tesla on autopilot has slammed into an obstacle partly blocking the left edge of a lane. All those crashes were in freeway situations, where Autopilot is supposed to be reliable. That&amp;#x27;s inexcusable.  Tesla&amp;#x27;s radar has inadequate resolution for the job, the vision system doesn&amp;#x27;t really recognize fixed obstacles, and they don&amp;#x27;t have LIDAR. So they don&amp;#x27;t detect big things like fire trucks and street cleaning trucks that are mostly on the shoulder and partly into the lane.</text></comment>
<story><title>The Battle for Best Semi-Autonomous System: Tesla Autopilot vs. GM SuperCruise</title><url>http://www.thedrive.com/tech/17083/the-battle-for-best-semi-autonomous-system-tesla-autopilot-vs-gm-supercruise-head-to-head</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gtowey</author><text>According to the article GM has decided to simply restrict the domain of their semi-autonomous offering to only work on divided highways.  The author says that the result is innovative and brilliant.  But the problems they&amp;#x27;re trying to solve are not nearly as ambitious or challenging as those Tesla has decided to tackle.&lt;p&gt;While it can be argued that GM should received kudos for releasing a feature that can work reliably, I don&amp;#x27;t see it as innovative.&lt;p&gt;It kind of reinforces that traditional car makers are never going to offer anything revolutionary to the car market.  They&amp;#x27;re going to use the work of others to incrementally add features to cars that they think will increase sales.  They won&amp;#x27;t take risks with technology.</text></comment>