How would such a misinterpretation be an actual problem? Less safe?

dharmab · on Oct 20, 2022

It may be a contributing factor to recent cases where Tesla Autopilot rear ended motorcycles at night. Thus video has a visualization: https://youtu.be/yRdzIs4FJJg

One of these crashes was right by my home, where I rode to work nearly every day prepandemic.

OJFord · on Oct 20, 2022

Is that an honest question? How misinterpreting something as being further away than it actually is while on a road is 'an actual problem'? Of course it's 'less safe'.

emptybits · on Oct 21, 2022

Yes, my question was honest. When I asked it, I did not see "further away" in the text of the post. Possibly it was added or else I misread it.

As a motorcyclist, at night, I wish I had the appearance of a car in other motorists' fields of view!

But if it means misjudging my proximity, sure, I do not want that. Still, I think a single point of light (common motorcycle config) gives even less depth information than a pair or triplet of horizontal lights. I've run two or three lights wide on most of my bikes for decades. ATGATT and fingers crossed...