This was bad. Notice how little time the driver has to react. At 8:05, everything is going well. Straight road, no obstacles ahead. At 8:06, the car has veered into opposing traffic. So the driver had about 1 second to react to Tesla's mistakes.
Now look at 2:51 .. 2:54, where the driver is distracted from the road for 3 seconds while operating the touchscreen interface. If the operator had been using the touchscreen in the same way at 8:06, there would have been a crash.
This demonstrates a few things:
* One fixed forward facing camera is not enough in rainy conditions at night. Humans will move their head a little in that situation to disambiguate raindrops and windshield dirt from distant lights.
* The system seems to identify oncoming vehicles at night by recognizing two headlights. If reflections or rain on the windshield or additional lights confuse that pattern, the oncoming vehicle is not recognized.
* Failure to recognize an obstacle seems to be treated as a no-obstacle condition.
Now look at 2:51 .. 2:54, where the driver is distracted from the road for 3 seconds while operating the touchscreen interface. If the operator had been using the touchscreen in the same way at 8:06, there would have been a crash.
This demonstrates a few things:
* One fixed forward facing camera is not enough in rainy conditions at night. Humans will move their head a little in that situation to disambiguate raindrops and windshield dirt from distant lights.
* The system seems to identify oncoming vehicles at night by recognizing two headlights. If reflections or rain on the windshield or additional lights confuse that pattern, the oncoming vehicle is not recognized.
* Failure to recognize an obstacle seems to be treated as a no-obstacle condition.