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Re:George Hotz cancels his Tesla Autopilot-like ‘comma one’ by AceJohnny2 on Friday October 28, 2016 @05:05PM (#12820706)
I should add, by the way, that while Teslas have onboard radar, it is not a primary sensor, but a secondary discriminating sensor.

This was admitted by Musk on Twitter following the fatal crash in Florida: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/748625979271045121

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Re:George Hotz cancels his Tesla Autopilot-like ‘comma one’ by ceterum_censeo on Friday October 28, 2016 @05:26PM (#12820883)
It was a secondary discriminating sensor, but the latest Autopilot 8 upgrade retasks radar to be "a primary control sensor without requiring the camera to confirm visual image recognition": https://www.tesla.com/blog/upgrading-autopilot-seeing-world-...
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Re:George Hotz cancels his Tesla Autopilot-like ‘comma one’ by AceJohnny2 on Friday October 28, 2016 @05:46PM (#12821033)
Indeed. And I absolutely do not trust them on it. Their radar hardware just isn't good enough to reliably do that.
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Re:George Hotz cancels his Tesla Autopilot-like ‘comma one’ by ceterum_censeo on Friday October 28, 2016 @06:06PM (#12821171)
Ditto. It also seems strange to be able to retask their radar from secondary to primary control.
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