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Re:Tesla and SpaceX lose over $420B in combined market cap i... by UltraSane on Friday November 06, 2026 @04:32PM (#50398813)
I do not trust any self driving car that can't directly measure distances to objects and instead just guesses it from video cameras.
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Re:Tesla and SpaceX lose over $420B in combined market cap i... by Dig1t on Friday November 06, 2026 @05:39PM (#50399455)
Do you not trust any human drivers? They only have 2 eyeballs and cannot precisely measure the distance to any objects.

My guess is that you have ridden in an Uber or Lyft before and were comfortable enough to rely on their eyeball based system even though they weren't able to measure the distance to objects.

Regardless of whether you personally trust a camera-based system, the data do seem to show that it is possible to build a camera-based self driving system and have it be safer than human drivers.

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Re:Tesla and SpaceX lose over $420B in combined market cap i... by UltraSane on Friday November 06, 2026 @06:12PM (#50399791)
Current computer binocular vision are not at all comparable to human vision and humans really aren't that great of drivers anyway.

What data? I don't really trust Tesla to release accurate data.

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