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Thanks for your response. Please don't take anything in my response to be a challenge to what you've said. I believe your intent is simply to provide information, and accept it as such.
Of course not!! Same here. :smile:
You'll note in the Eyesight manual similar stuff. "Don't do it!! Really, don't!!" and "here's what it will do..."
I always thought it odd that both of them (Tesla and Subaru) go into detail telling you not to do it, then go into detail telling you "when you DO perform that action, it will work like this". But like you/we said, it's all a matter of knowing both system's limitations and being aware of what's going on.
One of the instances I noticed (twice) was it not determining a stopped car was a stopped car. It didn't figure out what it was in time for ACC to do anything, so pre-collision system instead jumped in, because it is designed to see stopped objects. I was well aware of what might happen, so, I hit the brakes before pre-collision braking did anything except beep and warn "object detected".
The computer programmer and semi-pro photographer in me is wondering what it will take to make the systems detect static objects better. I used to wonder why that's where the identification problem is. Before researching this extensively, I thought the problem would lie in detecting MOVING objects. I was 180° wrong. Totally wrong, lol!
I realized after giving it some deep thought that when one is driving, a moving car in front of them is like a picture. A stopped car is a blur of something heading "towards" us.
In the human world, it's like looking at the car in front of you (picture) and being stopped on the side of the highway and watching a car whizz by (blur). Makes sense when I stopped to think about it. We've got the intellect and fuzzy matching capabilities to know "hey, it's a highway, that blur is a car" without waiting for it to be so close that we can touch it. I can't wait until cars can do that too. Soon, I hope.
Anyway, this reply is already a gazillion words... one last thing... Subaru has a timeline for their vehicles becoming fully autonomous... every now and then a Google search reveals it... most of the time, it's tough to find (and I have no clue why). But, if you're interested, Googling on the right day may turn it up.