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The technology to end traffic deaths exists. Why aren’t we using it?
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Wait. Those things rely on visual sensors only?? That moronic! I mean, more so that I originally though. Please tell me that they have them, but this particular one was malfunctioning.
Edit: holy crap. How are these vehicles allowed to operate on public roads??
Musk has sai d multiple times that humans can drive with vision alone, so cars shouldn't need LIDAR.
He ignores that humans also regularly experience optical illusions that contribute to poor driving and collisions, and that LIDAR is far less susceptible to such abberations.
Very early on, Tesla used ~~lidar~~ radar in addition to optical sensors. However, they only use optical sensors today and have for a while. Like many of the poor decisions at that company, the change to optical-only was made at Musk's demand.
Edit: misremembered, it was radar not lidar as pointed out below
IIRC, they uses to have radar, not lidar.
Correct they've never used lidar. However I will say that no manufacturer has actually solved the self-driving issue yet so nobody can definitively say what is and isn't required.
Mark Rober of YouTube recently did a video demonstrating how bad tesla sensors are.