Re:Tesla to produce $25K car as early as 2022
by TaylorAlexander on Saturday January 09, 2021 @05:16PM
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Removing the cameras may be a good idea, but note that their extensive fleet of camera-equipped vehicles is an important part of their potentially VERY lucrative self driving software development.
EDIT: I highly recommend watching head of AI at Tesla Andrej Karpathy's talk on their self driving architecture. "The Fleet" as a source of data is a vital functional part of their self driving software development. They may be able to calculate that including cameras and a computer on a car that will ship in high volumes would increase sales of their self driving option across all Tesla vehicles (including that low cost model) enough to justify the inclusion of those parts.
EDIT: I highly recommend watching head of AI at Tesla Andrej Karpathy's talk on their self driving architecture. "The Fleet" as a source of data is a vital functional part of their self driving software development. They may be able to calculate that including cameras and a computer on a car that will ship in high volumes would increase sales of their self driving option across all Tesla vehicles (including that low cost model) enough to justify the inclusion of those parts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hx7BXih7zx8