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Re:Tesla: Introducing Autopilot and Dual Motor All Wheel Drive by mikeash on Friday October 10, 2014 @12:01PM (#8438421)
When you can fit an exaflop electronic computer into a car, then maybe two cameras would be sufficient. Right now, we have to make do with less, and better sensors can make up the difference.
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Re:Tesla: Introducing Autopilot and Dual Motor All Wheel Drive by vl on Sunday October 12, 2014 @04:39AM (#8444780)
There is no exaflop computer in the human though - we just don't have enough energy to power it inside us.
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Re:Tesla: Introducing Autopilot and Dual Motor All Wheel Drive by mikeash on Sunday October 12, 2014 @03:54PM (#8446390)
That's a rough estimate of how much computing power is in the human brain. It's extremely efficient energy-wise, but massively parallel and weirdly put together so not entirely comparable to an electronic computer. Still, the computing resources available to process the images from the human eye are enormous.
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