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Re:Tesla is building its own AI chips for self-driving cars by wyldfire on Thursday August 02, 2018 @01:06PM (#17673189)
The standard of safety for autonomous drivers will have to be far beyond parity with humans. Humans cause car accidents all the time. LIDAR gives unambiguous depth and probably much easier object segmentation, no complexity or reasoning required like computing from stereo images.
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Re:Tesla is building its own AI chips for self-driving cars by p1esk on Thursday August 02, 2018 @01:28PM (#17673449)
Good point, plus if you have to choose between having LIDAR and acceptable self-driving capability in 3 years, or no LIDAR and acceptable self-driving capability in 10 years, I think most people would prefer the first option.
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