Twitter’s @greetheonly, a well-known Tesla hacker, has uploaded footage of their Tesla’s “Augmented Reality view.” The videos show what the car sees as it drives down the road – or at least what the company’s engineers and developers see as they build a so-called Full Self-Driving mode.
Full Self-Driving mode has been in the works for at least two years now, according to spy photos. Even back then, Augmented Vision was an option for developers. It provided an overlay of real-time information as the Tesla’s various cameras saw the world, or, more specifically, the road.
Ok, autopilot assist app activated!
the much coveted augmented reality view!
(perfect "stop line" detection I must say, only 31% probability of indoors though which is a bit of a bummer.)
Interestign that A/B nodes vision fps is different (both far from 36fps nominal though!) pic.twitter.com/aj1L1wBvUN— green (@greentheonly) December 15, 2020
The videos follow the original leak of this information last week. Although our knowledge of “Augmented Vision” was confirmed then, this is our first footage of the mode in action.
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Last week’s leak, though, also revealed dozens of settings and available adjustments. These include things like an “Enhanced Summon” mode and “California Stop,” which only slows to a crawl at stop signs rather than the correct three-second full stop.
If Tesla was a REAL software company, after you press that "YES" dialog button about "This is beta, blah blah, I understand what I am doing and will keep both pieces if it breaks" setting windows become accessible pic.twitter.com/TXJchWL0eZ
— green (@greentheonly) December 9, 2020
In the original leak there were also sliders and adjustments for things like the GPS and speed threshold. In their more recent thread, Green wondered why Tesla’s developers locked Augmented Vision away from users – and we may have an answer: allowing anyone to have access to these settings could seriously affect safety.
While we still don’t know exactly how far down the road Tesla is in developing Full Self-Driving mode, the beta software is already in some drivers’ hands.
Regardless, this is an interesting insight to anyone interested in how the technology might work. Building faith in self-driving modes will be a big hurdle for automakers when it comes to wider adoption. Mind you, some Tesla drivers may already have too much faith in the system.
