Autonomous Confusion: Burger King Roadside Signs Make Teslas Stop

[malaise]

https://www.motorbiscuit.com/autonomous-confusion-burger-king-roadside-signs-make-teslas-stop/


If your Tesla is stopping at every freeway exit where a Burger King is located, it’s not wondering “Where’s the beef?” It can’t, because it’s an inanimate, well, you know why. It’s because Burger King roadside signs are causing Teslas to stop. The confusion is because the autonomous sign recognition system is matching the details of the Burger King logo to certain criteria downloaded into its ECU. It sees the Burger King logo as a Stop sign. So, maybe these autonomous “smart systems” aren’t so smart after all?

But the burghers at Burger King are not letting this Tesla glitch go without some promotional gravitas. A Tesla owner uploaded to YouTube the autonomous confusion phenomenon as it was happening. Don’t be distracted by the sawed-off steering wheel that looks like it came out of the Batmobile. We don’t know either.

[Fullduplexxx]

1. Lol

[malaise]

2. Hilarious and ominous

😀😀

[Alexander Of Assyria]

4. The whole story is a Whopper!

[malaise]

11. Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

[tanyev]

3. *snort* Now Elon is going to demand Burger King pay him for the free advertising.

[BSdetect]

5. These tales are often based on false claims.

A recent claim that a Tesla "ran" a Stop sign at 35mph proved to be a complete lie.

Such a problem as a Burger King sign could be easily resolved only by Tesla over the air in minutes.

No other software comes close.

Millions of lives will be saved

But the FUD never ends.

[Casady1]

9. Minor accidents

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/06/10/tesla-autopilot-crashes-elon-musk/

[CentralMass]

10. Time will tell. I wouldn't rely on it.

[Buns_of_Fire]

6. Yeah, THAT'S the ticket!

Hack into the Tesla's self-driving software, program it to turn into one of my many Axolotl-on-a-Stick (tm) drive-ins, park, and refuse to start again until the driver returns with a Sack-O'-Axolotls (tm) and a large diet coke. I'll make millions -- no, billions of dollars!

[Beastly Boy]

7. Any reports of the smart cars autonomously pulling into

the BK drive through and ordering a happy meal?

[spanone]

8. Bwahahahaaa

[usonian]

12. Maybe Burger King paid Elon to make his autos stop there.

Beware anything that runs on software.

That would be damn near everything. (gets out programming cheat sheet .... )

[marble falls]

13. Now if we could get Musk's Testla to take a long drive off a short pier.

[Earth-shine]

14. Comparing the BK logo to stop signs is like comparing the impossible burger to beef.