Not just Tesla that gets confused. Other cars with lane assist also get easily confused if there’s markings on the road. Pretty sure my Passat would do the same thing.
Same for humans too! Not trying to state the obvious but the Fig 31 and 32 in the paper might also make humans believe that there is, or should be a lane - although it looks like an error. The changes on the road are certainly not minor at all!
What is critical is to consider further context and its unclear if the interpretation of the image by itself would cause the AV to make an incorrect decision. It's part of a large amount of information that is consumed in the decision-making process I assume - again similar to humans.
Is it? I would say Waymo is a lot closer to being the poster child; a significant number of people have realized that Tesla isn’t true self-driving despite their claims.
Disclosure: I work at Cruise (a self-driving car company)
How you implement these systems matters. GM super-cruise (not to be confused with Cruise automation) uses HD mapping + GNSS + visual queues and could potentially do better due to having priors from the map. Tesla's approach that doesn't utilize a map is likely more susceptible.
GM super-cruise is the best system out there right now and they are very modest in their claims. All these systems have problems.
Tesla is the one making the big claims and drawing attention to themselves. How many others are claiming full autonomy is just around the corner? They bring the publicly on themselves and can't have it both ways.
Tesla's is supposed to be more than lane assist, something like only regulators keeping it from being released by now.
When combined with the big neural link announcement that was supposed to happen weeks ago, you may be able to monitor autopilot while you sleep by having it tap into your dreams. They are also going to give us point-to-point earth rocket travel for less than a first class ticket within 8 years.
I'm joking about neural link, though it did miss an announcement, but I'm not joking about the rocket one.
