Re:Tesla to add radar in its cars next month amid self-drivi...
by JustFinishedBSG on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @05:16AM
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> what exactly it improves
The supply chain. They just needed to con people into believing getting less is good. The other automakers dealt with the supply shortage by delaying car deliveries... by a lot. Not an acceptable solution when you have an overpriced stock to pump even higher.
Re:Tesla to add radar in its cars next month amid self-drivi...
by zaroth on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @01:06PM
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It’s a fun narrative but it’s bullshit right? The old radar and the new radar they are putting in are not the same part. So “supply chain” is the wrong answer.
The new radar has been under development at Tesla. The old radar didn’t have the resolution to be useful. Elon was actually clear from the start that they needed to build a better radar that didn’t currently exist for it to be useful.
But if you hate Elon it’s easier to call it a con than to understand the technical details.
The probability of safety will be higher with pure vision than vision+radar, not lower. Vision has become so good that radar actually reduces signal/noise.
A very high resolution radar would be better than pure vision, but such a radar does not exist. I mean vision with high res radar would be better than pure vision.
I will be interested to hear when if/they announce this if they quantify how it is used, what exactly it improves, and will it be retrofitted on FSD vehicles.