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Ask HN: How much negative testing is done by Tesla and other self-driving teams?

1 pointsby tomparkalmost 3 years ago
In software testing, there&#x27;s positive testing to check that software will perform desired behavior, and negative testing to ensure that the software will avoid undesired behaviors.<p>We know that self-driving cars have many thousands of hours of positive testing done. But what I&#x27;m wondering is how much adversarial testing is done?<p>For example, to test that the car doesn&#x27;t get misled by old lane markers when a road is under construction, wouldn&#x27;t you at least do millions of simulated tests with randomly placed painted lines overlaid on the virtual road?<p>And to test that the car doesn&#x27;t run into stopped emergency vehicles or tractor trailers crossing its path, wouldn&#x27;t you at least do thousands of tests on a road containing stopped vehicles?<p>Not to mention if someone accidentally guns the accelerator while approaching a sharp curve. Shouldn&#x27;t the car know that it&#x27;s approaching the curve and issue a warning?<p>Does anyone attempt to do the driving equivalent of fuzzing to self-driving cars?

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