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Re:Tesla Autopilot director contradicts Musk’s self-driving ... by blueblisters on Sunday May 09, 2021 @12:34PM (#27097327)
> He further states to think about how a human would drive a car, does a human need LiDAR to drive a car?

I hate this argument. It doesn't hold for several reasons:

- A human driver has blind spots (which btw Tesla avoids by having cameras surrounding the car)

- Human reactions times are very poor at even moderate speeds

- Human vision is affected by glare

- Humans are terrible at driving in low light conditions

- Humans are terrible at driving in inclement weather - snow storms or heavy rainfall

LIDAR doesn't solve many of these problems but to claim that self driving is solvable by vision alone is a bad take. Multiple sensors add redundancies and reduce errors. Teslas are already equipped with ultrasound sensors and radar so it's not technically solving a Computer Vision only problem.

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Re:Tesla Autopilot director contradicts Musk’s self-driving ... by atatatat on Sunday May 09, 2021 @08:24PM (#27101249)
> LIDAR doesn't solve many of these problems

Radar+sonar do.

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Re:Tesla Autopilot director contradicts Musk’s self-driving ... by tr1ll10nb1ll on Monday May 10, 2021 @12:13AM (#27102615)
It's never about being just able to solve the problems, it's more about solving the problem without spending millions and millions of dollars and still not having a product everyone can use after years.
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