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Re:Andrej Karpathy: Why Tesla Removed Radar and Ultrasonic S... by yarg on Monday October 31, 2022 @02:04AM (#33402531)
Human binocular vision is what has been used to drive cars up until now, so it can be done (with a few thousand million years of iteration).

Ideally cars will be self-driving using only passive sensors - but I do think that Musk/Tesla completely missed the value of active sensors in training.

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Re:Andrej Karpathy: Why Tesla Removed Radar and Ultrasonic S... by gibolt on Monday October 31, 2022 @04:47AM (#33403356)
Pretty sure humans haven't been striving for drivers licenses for millions of years...

Tesla does use Lidar on a small number of test vehicles for assessing ground truth. However, they have built enough of a data pipeline and fleet data acquisition to use repeat clips to determine ground truth better than human labelers.

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Re:Andrej Karpathy: Why Tesla Removed Radar and Ultrasonic S... by tibbydudeza on Monday October 31, 2022 @07:38AM (#33404416)
But the "system" is so adaptable from bipedal locomotion, spotting predators or prey and identifying unfit food, figure out social hierarchy, human facial expressions that driving a car is easy.
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