Tesla changes meaning of 'Full Self-Driving', gives up on promise of autonomy

Re:Tesla changes meaning of 'Full Self-Driving', gives up on... by realo on Saturday September 06, 2025 @12:34PM (#45150723)

My floor-cleaning robot has a lidar and i am pretty certain that part did not cost 10k$.

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Re:Tesla changes meaning of 'Full Self-Driving', gives up on... by peterfirefly on Saturday September 06, 2025 @02:58PM (#45151944)

It goes very slow and it doesn't need to work with high resolution or long distances. It has plenty of time to average out noise.

Solid-state LIDAR is still a fairly new thing. LIDAR sensors were big, clunky, and expensive back when Tesla started their Autopilot/FSD program.

I googled a bit and found a DFR1030 solid-state LIDAR unit for 267 DKK (for one). It has a field of view of 108 degrees and an angular resolution of 0.6 degrees. It has an angle error of 3 degrees and a max distance of 300mm. It can run at 7.5-28 Hz.

Clearly fine for a floor-cleaning robot or a toy. Clearly not good enough for a car (which would need several of them).

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Re:Tesla changes meaning of 'Full Self-Driving', gives up on... by wombat-man on Sunday September 07, 2025 @11:48AM (#45159228)

well, probably different grades of lidar for different use cases.

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