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Re:Tesla is building its own AI chips for self-driving cars by tokipin on Thursday August 02, 2018 @02:45PM (#17674268)
Musk commented about LIDAR in a prior earnings call[1]. Tl;dr he believes that LIDAR is a short-term crutch that distracts from the real long-term challenge, which is the machine learning, not the sensors.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaW85fIos64&t=21m40s

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Re:Tesla is building its own AI chips for self-driving cars by twtw on Thursday August 02, 2018 @03:09PM (#17674518)
Tesla autopilot needs all the short term crutches it can get.

Supposed to be fully autonomous since, what, 18 months ago? How about that SF->NY demo?

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Re:Tesla is building its own AI chips for self-driving cars by Fricken on Thursday August 02, 2018 @03:50PM (#17674877)
He can say whatever he likes, the proof is in the pudding.
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