Re:Self-Driving Teslas Are Fatally Rear-Ending Motorcyclists...
by crazygringo on Sunday April 06, 2025 @01:24PM
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You were responding to a comment criticizing Musk for removing "radar/lidar".
So I'm assuming that the "superhuman vision" you described meant specifically if people had LIDAR, since that was the subject at hand.
LIDAR is superior to cameras because it much more accurately detects objects. It's an advantage all the time, and an especially huge advantage at night.
So LIDAR isn't orthogonal to anything. It's the entire point. If people had LIDAR, the accident rate would be significantly reduced.
You're arguing that LIDAR won't help cars, because by analogy it wouldn't help people if it was a native biological sense. But that's wrong.
So I'm assuming that the "superhuman vision" you described meant specifically if people had LIDAR, since that was the subject at hand.
LIDAR is superior to cameras because it much more accurately detects objects. It's an advantage all the time, and an especially huge advantage at night.
So LIDAR isn't orthogonal to anything. It's the entire point. If people had LIDAR, the accident rate would be significantly reduced.
You're arguing that LIDAR won't help cars, because by analogy it wouldn't help people if it was a native biological sense. But that's wrong.