Re:The death of self-driving cars is greatly exaggerated
by tsimionescu on Sunday June 04, 2023 @02:50AM
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This is anachronic. Musk was making the vision argument to claim that Teslas sold at the time (which lacked any kind of LIDAR or radar) had all of the hardware they needed to do FSD, which was sold as "just a few months away via software update". I believe that they still make this claim officially, since it's important to deny that they dif false advertising on this front.
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Re:The death of self-driving cars is greatly exaggerated
by ndhillon on Sunday June 04, 2023 @06:49PM
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How is this anachronic? Here is a clip from Dec 2020 with Musk making the claims about high resolution radar (skip to the last minute):
Tesla has been working on building a high res radar since 2018 and have yet to officially announce anything. Tesla dropped radar in new vehicles in mid-2021.
Re:The death of self-driving cars is greatly exaggerated
by tsimionescu on Thursday June 08, 2023 @07:01AM
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Musk has been claiming since 2018 that Teslas sold at the time have all the hardware needed to be fully independent driverless taxis. He made this claim very very clearly in conferences and marketing materials. And Teslas sold at the time only had cameras.
That he later may have changed his tune is probably true, as reality does eventually catch up even with someone like him.