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Elon Musk Suddenly Realizes That Teslas With "Self-Driving" Computers May Never Be Able to Actually Self-Drive (futurism.com)

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"Translation: all the times Tesla has vowed that all of its vehicles would soon be capable of fully driving themselves may have been a convenient act of salesmanship that ultimately turned out not to be true."

Another way to say that, is Tesla scammed all of their customers, since you know, everyone saw this coming...

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

LiDAR can be done with different wavelengths. It should be possible to make one that can see through rain and snow.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you shift the spectrum enough, you get Radar.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Agreed. But you don't have to go that far to make rain and snow transparent. And radar might not be a bad idea to have on self driving cars, as long as it's not the only thing.