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01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 10 months agoWait. Those things rely on visual sensors only?? That moronic! I mean, more so that I originally though. Please tell me that they have them, but this particular one was malfunctioning.
Musk has sai d multiple times that humans can drive with vision alone, so cars shouldn’t need LIDAR.
He ignores that humans also regularly experience optical illusions that contribute to poor driving and collisions, and that LIDAR is far less susceptible to such abberations.
Very early on, Tesla used lidar in addition to optical sensors. However, they only use optical sensors today and have for a while. Like many of the poor decisions at that company, the change to optical-only was made at Musk’s demand.
IIRC, they uses to have radar, not lidar.
Correct they’ve never used lidar.
NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
Mark Rober of YouTube recently did a video demonstrating how bad tesla sensors are.