Tesla Autopilot vs. Bad Drivers! (GoPro MAX)

I just got the new GoPro max 360 degree camera so I wanted to see how I could integrate its footage into an

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video. This footage is in-car from my GoPro Hero 7, which is the first point I want to make. I already know it. that the maximum will complement the in-car visuals, but not replace them, as you will soon see that everyone wants to know when the

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can handle roundabouts and this is one of my test cases. Version 10 is the first time autopilot has entered correctly. This roundabout, but then it accelerates too fast, so I take control even with the handling of this model 3.

Any speed over 20 miles per hour really shakes the car and doesn't give you enough time to react if autopilot goes crazy. and you drive into a curve and autopilot freaks out, it's the main reason I always keep one hand on the wheel. I have driven this stretch of road on autopilot several times over the weeks since we got this model 3 and I have never done it before. At that moment, the autopilot suddenly fails to recognize the lane markings and then attempts to exit the lane. The autopilot warned me to take control immediately, even before my steering inputs had a chance to take it out of autosteer.

At this point, I know people are going to cite the owner's manual and tell me that Autopilot is only designed for highways, but you're kidding yourself if you think that Tesla not only says that to cover their ass they could easily geofence autosteer, but they don't do it even though they know it's not that good. At intersections like this, the road curves through the intersection with no lane lines to guide you, so once again Autosteer moves the wheel to the right to find your way. This time it's my own steering that got it out of the auto without any real drama.

We're finally getting to a point where I think the GoPro max adds to what we can learn about autopilot behavior. Autopilot navigation is designed to be used on and off the ramp, so I always engage autopilot as soon as I can. -ramp notice how the top speed is automatically set to the speed limit of the highway I'm entering, that doesn't mean you'll drive as fast on the ramp, autopilot tries to drive at a speed appropriate for the curve and in this case he does it very well. I have the maximum mounted on top of the car to give the best 360 degree view of traffic that autopilot needs to navigate.

This merge presents no problems because there are no cars in the lane you are merging into if you look. In the dashboard view at the top left for a moment, you can see that the car in front of me is limiting my speed, but the maximum footage shows how fast the passing lane is traveling with my lane changes based on the speed set on autopilot Mad Max quickly. decides to change lanes, however, that white BMW is definitely moving at a good pace, probably faster than my autopilot top speed of 65 miles per hour, it accelerates quickly once in the passing lane, but I don't think there will be any been enough.

I'm intentionally letting autopilot be a jerk as long as he's safe and I think he's probably a jerk right now. A slower car actually simply took an exit leaving room in the slow lane for the autopilot to move out of the way. He stays on the path for too long. However, as soon as you signal to the human driver that Mercedes decides to accelerate, preventing Autopilot from initiating the lane change even though Mercedes is clearly going faster than 65 miles per hour, Autopilot slows down. in the passing lane to slide behind it. It has to be frustrating for the driver of the car behind me, as well as the

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behind him.

I can't tell if this is because Autopilot is rude or because it's a genius because as soon as I get behind the Mercedes, all the traffic drastically slows the white BMW down. It doesn't even try to pass me at this point, staying behind the point where it would appear in the center screen animation, but once the traffic starts picking up again, it passes right by me and I wouldn't have blamed the driver for flipping me off. off the autopilot has been doing this lately where it will prompt two clicks do nothing this is what it looks like a notification of a speed baseline change flashes briefly on the screen when this happens but something causes the autopilot to switch off opinion navigating on autopilot not only has to merge from one lane to another, you must also allow other cars to merge, as is the case with this on-ramp here, this black van merges illegally early, but autopilot still lets you makes room for what happens next, though that's definitely something I'll leave up to you.

In my opinion, a Subaru passes me with enough room to merge in front of me, but then slows down, instead she clearly wants to merge and if I were driving I would politely slow down to let her, however, the driver Auto is being a little more inflexible about where it wants it to go. Come on, it leaves her enough room in front but doesn't slow down to get behind her. He eventually speeds up like he should have been doing all along by merging into space. Preserved autopilot for your autopilot navigation. I finally took my exit without problems, but there was nothing interesting.

At that, we resumed after taking the overpass and turning around. I engaged autopilot as soon as I entered the lane that turns onto the on-ramp, but it wasn't the on-ramp yet. I think that's why my top speed isn't. The highway speed limit is not automatically set, but tapping the speed limit icon allows you to look ahead at the white box truck and the black pickup truck. That space is where autopilot will place me. This is one of those moments where he behaves too. Since you might expect me to merge just as you would if you were driving once again, the traffic and merging lane is going much slower than my set speed, so Mad Max decides to move over the traffic that is quite fast in the target lane. but a woman kindly makes room for me as soon as the turn signal is activated and once again the slower vehicle takes an exit, leaving me room to turn back, except this time the traffic is slower and that lane encourages Mad Max to stay still.

I'm passing traffic at a pretty decent pace, but the cars in front of me are clearly going faster than my set speed, which means it's entirely possible that Autopilot is being a jerk again even though he's safe. I added all the images from the max and GoPros. free player app to keep the view more relevant remember the maximum is to record an entire sphere from your perspective all the time, well you can see it's only about a sixth of that, however the free app tracks cars and targets The view of spaces in traffic is super easy.

I can certainly share the entire spherical video so viewers can scroll to what they want to see, but there's no easy way to combine spherical and non-spherical videos like I need to do, especially when I overlay one on top of the other like I do. doing with the model three screen keep your eyes on this black Chevy crossover it's going much slower than me I'm not making any effort to catch up to the car in front of it the autopilot sees this as his chance to get out of the passing lane but This lady decides that my turn signal is his signal to accelerate.

Autopilot does about a quarter of the lane change before quickly returning to my original lane after seeing that instead of making room for me, this driver decides to block me while he chats on the phone. The autopilot never left lane change mode, patiently signaling and waiting for her to move out of the way, while the traffic in front of me has accelerated well beyond my maximum speed, causing the autopilot to return. to be a bit of an idiot despite the involvement of this autopilot. Engrossed driver looking ahead. I can see that both lanes of traffic slowed down, but I guess in this case the autopilot can only see the slowing car right in front of me with a solid white line and a tight section of construction.

Autopilot decides to pass again. I can see a whole pile of cars approaching to my left. This is not a safe place to change lanes, so I cancel it by pressing the turn signal. Here's another time Autopilot drove like a rock star and recognized that the Jeep to my right needed to merge. so he slowed down to leave it. I wouldn't have driven any differently here, but I think the Jeep accelerating like it should have is what made the difference between this behavior and the way autopilot treated the Subaru earlier in a video note that this is just autopilot simple I turned off autopilot navigation temporarily because I don't want to take the exit it's about to drop me off at.

Instead, I wanted to see how autopilot navigation handled the interchange from this freeway to I-40, a notorious bottleneck with crazy

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like You'll Soon See Mad Max already wants me to get out of the lane I need to be in. be to be able to enter I-40. He wants me to pass on the right with only 0.2 miles left to reach the intersection with the cars flying. He stays there with the signal on until he sees an opening. The reason traffic is backed up in this lane is because if you don't enter the lane early, you have to be pretty aggressive to find an opening once you're at the intersection.

As a human driver with this knowledge, I wouldn't drift out of this lane, but it will be a long time before Tesla's Autopilot incorporates that kind of data into driving decisions. Personally, I don't like driving as fast as a car that just has a dotted line on top of it. it creates an unnecessary risk of one of them running off without realizing how fast I'm going after them. I tried to slow down the autopilot spin by changing the set speed, but the wheel wasn't fast enough, so I take control. I see a safe spot emerge, so I take it manually instead of re-engaging autopilot once back in the lane.

I should have stayed there the whole time. I put autopilot on, but if I tried to pass on the right again I wouldn't leave it at this point. it actually stays right where I want it to be, as the exchange becomes a bit of a mosh pit around me. This is a good way to show some of the limitations of the footage you get with a 360-degree camera like the GoPro max, as well as trying to flatten the surface of the earth on a sheet of paper, taking spherical images and flattening them on a screen dramatically changes the proportions.

This is nothing new to us in 2019, but the practical effects are sometimes easy to overlook in this case. He was almost rear-ended by this driver who was on the phone, but this video doesn't convey how close he actually came to calling. Remember that I'm back on autopilot in version 10. It's actually very good at driving very smoothly in this type of traffic. In fact, stop-and-go traffic does a great job of smoothing out sudden speed changes from the car. car I'm following and at the same time maintain the flow of traffic, so there is nothing Autopilot did or could have done differently to avoid this near miss.

In fact, most of the time Autopilot does exactly what I want, whether it's on standard Autopilot or a navigator on Autopilot like what I show in this video, it safely handles lane changes on its own. , handles most highway junctions safely on its own and merges safely when necessary, it's still a work in progress, but one of my favorite things about owning our Model 3 is how quickly it picks up. makes that progress when people ask me if this level of software is worth the seven grand that Tesla now charges for it. I asked them if they would value seeing the future of driving before them.

That's why I'm glad we paid for fully autonomous driving. It's not just the promise of what's to come for what I paid for. I paid to be part of it. of its development I paid for the excitement of seeing the notification that there is new software to download I paid for the enjoyment of seeing how frequent updates change the behavior of the car which brings me back to the GoPro max if I didn't have this channel, if I didn't everything possible to share videos whereautopilot succeeds and fails, I would have no use for the max, however just doing this first video with it I see it being worth the $4.99 retail price I paid.

Its feature set goes far beyond what I've used so far, but even just using its default settings I feel like I can better convey the traffic that Autopilot navigates. If you want to learn more about the new GoPro Max, be sure to check it out. the link in the video description, if you are looking to get a Tesla for yourself, make sure to use my referral link to get free super charging. Complete details about the Tesla Owner Referral Program can be found in the link itself. I really appreciate you checking out tech tech and I hope to see you next time.