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Re:Tesla is outrunning the supply chain crunch by tabtab on Thursday October 21, 2021 @05:34PM (#28951098)
> It's not volume, it's vertically integrated agility. Can't get Continental radar hardware anymore? Tesla updates their vehicle software to use vision only.

You say that like it's a good thing.

Re:Tesla is outrunning the supply chain crunch by simondotau on Thursday October 21, 2021 @08:06PM (#28952370)
Given that radar is functionally blind[1] to static objects when travelling at high speeds, I'd argue it's not just a good thing, it's a necessary thing. Tesla have demonstrated the superiority of their vision approach and validated it with 1,000 years of real-world driving, running it in shadow mode on customer vehicles.[2]

[1] Technically radar isn't blind to static objects, but since it cannot disambiguate them from tunnel entrances and highway overpasses, the data is useless. Therefore it's functionally blind.

[2] https://youtu.be/g6bOwQdCJrc?t=1647