Comment on New Footage Shows Tesla On Autopilot Crashing Into Police Car After Alerting Driver 150 Times

• thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Wait, the Model X doesn’t have RADAR/LIDAR to supplement the cameras?

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  • masterairmagic@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    No, they were too expensive for Musk

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    • madcaesar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Holy shit… This is worse than I thought

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      • HERRAX@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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  • NathanielThomas@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The video said the car has radar

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    • lemann@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      IIRC Tesla disabled all of their dedicated hardware sensors in an OTA update, due to these sensors being excluded from new vehicles manufactured during the shortage. The autopilot system is vision only now, despite the engineers best efforts to keep hardware sensors in the vehicles

      www.tesla.com/support/transitioning-tesla-vision

      carbuzz.com/…/tesla-scrapping-radar-plans-and-upg… (Sensationalised but contains additional details missing from Tesla’s site)

      The changes are being rolled out with the latest over-the-air (OTA) Tesla update 2022.20.9 confirmed for Model X, Model S, and Model Y. The update is adding Tesla Vision to the older vehicles equipped with radar

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