ndhillon
Re:The death of self-driving cars is greatly exaggerated
on Sunday June 04, 2023 @06:49PM (#36190300)
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
on Sunday June 04, 2023 @12:40AM (#36183161)
This is a mischaracterization of what he is saying. Humans are unable to drive without vision. Even Chris Urmson agrees that LiDAR is a crutch that measures distance as opposed to computing it (albeit it only works in perfect weather). Musk is saying that if you are going to use a sensor to measure distance, don’t use photons in the visible light spectrum. Instead use photons that can penetrate objects (microwaves) to capture information that you wouldn’t have. The challenge is building a high-precision RADAR, which Tesla is attempting to do. Some HW4 vehicles have it but it’s unclear whether it is required or not. Ultimately, building a L4 AV requires solving very difficult problems in computer vision, which is exactly what they are trying to do
Re:From FOMO to JOMO: the joy of missing out
on Saturday September 07, 2019 @11:16AM (#20904263)
You typed all that on a flip-phone?