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Re:Waymo's collision avoidance testing by threeseed on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @03:12PM (#33989649)
By us constantly moving them around in three dimensions unlike a car.

And also having a computer behind them that deeply understands what an object is, the forms it should take and what its expected behaviour should be. We don’t ever confuse billboards for real people.

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Re:Waymo's collision avoidance testing by sebzim4500 on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @03:41PM (#33990213)
>By us constantly moving them around in three dimensions unlike a car.

Fair but to compensate the car has many more cameras than we do.

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Re:Waymo's collision avoidance testing by vel0city on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @04:29PM (#33990879)
For looking forward Tesla's have three fixed cameras looking from the rear view mirror. All the other cameras do not have stereoscopic vision and are not looking forward. A camera looking out from a side pillar isn't helping gauge the distance to something far up the road.

On top of that these cameras can't move, can't be re-aimed, and have generally far worse dynamic range than our eyes.

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