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Re:Tesla's Autopilot Chief Keller Steps Down After Two Years by Retric on Thursday April 26, 2018 @11:34AM (#16932803)
This really depends on the Camera, some have beyond human level dynamic ranges which we could equip on cars. The cheap Go Pro sensor was likely much worse than what the car was actually using.
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Re:Tesla's Autopilot Chief Keller Steps Down After Two Years by alexsb92 on Thursday April 26, 2018 @05:31PM (#16936023)
I don't believe that's actually the case that cameras have better dynamic range than humans. From what I've seen human vision is definitely in the 20+ stop range. It's especially doubtful that cameras that are cheap enough to put on an autonomous system would get anywhere near that.
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Re:Tesla's Autopilot Chief Keller Steps Down After Two Years by Retric on Thursday April 26, 2018 @06:06PM (#16936320)
The human eye uses a lot of tricks to be high effective dynamic range but the retina is a long way from 20 stops. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-dynamic-range_imaging

So, in a direct comparison where cameras are allowed to use a similar set of tricks tricks including a fair amount of post processing they actually win. Aka, Retna vs CCD the CCD wins, iris vs iris camera wins etc.

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