Tesla Autopilot drove into Wile E. Coyote-style fake road wall in the middle of the road in a camera versus...

Tesla Autopilot drove into Wile E. Coyote-style fake road wall in the middle of the road in a camera versus lidar test.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish
    72·
    1 day ago

    While most companies developing self-driving technologies have been using a mix of sensors (cameras, radar, lidar, and ultrasonic), Tesla insists on only using cameras.

    The automaker removed radars from its vehicle lineup and even deactivated radars already installed in existing vehicles.

    I did not know about this. I thought they were also using a mix of sensors, since they originally were. But they stopped putting them in new ones and even disabled them on vehicles that already had them?!

    This is some next level stupidity.

    • BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      22 hours ago

      Yeah this is the reason Tesla is massively overvalued. Self drive tech won’t be coming from Tesla because Musk interfered and told his engineers to remove lidar.

      Musk is nothing but an investor but he believes his own nonsense about being a genius. He made some good bets but he also made some bad ones (Twitter being one) and Tesla is not going to justify irs crazy shareprice. Even having fallen 50% from peak it is way overvalued.

      • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
        2·
        3 hours ago

        RADAR*

        he also made some bad ones (Twitter being one)

        He paid $44M and it made him >$100B richer, it seems like a smart bet to me.

      • habitualcynic@lemmy.worldEnglish
        13·
        21 hours ago

        All true, but I think Twitter was a “good” bet. He controls a surprisingly large amount of the media landscape now and it got his bff rapist in chief elected.

    • Thistlewick@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
      361·
      24 hours ago

      A while ago people called Musk out on only using cameras when better options existed(for reasons exactly like this one), and he had a little tanty about it like the normal adult man he is. I have no doubt turning off existing radar features is a spiteful move because he got his feelings hurt.

      • piccoloEnglish
        828·
        24 hours ago

        Doubt thats the reason. More like no need to maintain two versions of their software.

        • kitnaht@lemmy.worldEnglish
          152·
          23 hours ago

          No sane person would ever have 2 separate versions of their software for different sensors. It would be 1 software with integration of the different sensors.

          It’s not “Cameras OR Lidar”, it’s Cameras AND Lidar.

          • piccoloEnglish
            417·
            22 hours ago

            Thats my point. If the new model only have cameras, then it only makes most financial sense to develop only for cameras.

    • OhNoMoreLemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish
      23·
      23 hours ago

      Anywhere Tesla can cut corners and save money, they do. The real reason they don’t use it is lidar is expensive but lying about self driving is free.