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Re:The death of self-driving cars is greatly exaggerated by est31 on Saturday June 03, 2023 @11:49PM (#36182929)
Yeah human eyes cover a huge dynamic range compared to traditional cameras that have all sorts of issues with either too little or too much light (blooming, lens flares). Are a Tesla's cameras of the same quality of the human eye? Can they see in the dark just as well?
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Re:The death of self-driving cars is greatly exaggerated by alpaca128 on Sunday June 04, 2023 @07:02AM (#36184643)
Not only can Tesla's cameras not do that as well, they may also just shut down if it's too cold, even if they're not covered in snow.

Current self driving systems sometimes fail in perfect weather conditions on correctly marked, empty roads. There's a long road ahead if it's supposed to actually work in the real world.

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Re:The death of self-driving cars is greatly exaggerated by fastball on Sunday June 04, 2023 @08:22AM (#36185050)
Human vision sometimes fails in perfect weather conditions on correctly marked, empty roads.

It doesn't need to be perfect, it just needs to be better than humans.

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Re:The death of self-driving cars is greatly exaggerated by grumple on Sunday June 04, 2023 @09:01AM (#36185272)
That's a failure of attention, not vision.

All the sources I'm able to find say there are no cameras in existence that are as good as human vision. Human vision is quite good and adaptive to real world conditions of all sorts.

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Re:The death of self-driving cars is greatly exaggerated by alpaca128 on Monday June 05, 2023 @01:26PM (#36199714)
Would you use the same excuse for calculators or medical devices?

The reason we invented machines in the first place is because they're significantly better and more reliable than humans.

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