“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…

    • @[email protected]
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      8220 days ago

      “Trust me, you just need to buy more compute for your car. We’ll figure out reliable driving by sight someday.”

      • @RamblingPanda
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        3820 days ago

        I’m happily using all the sensors my car offers, even if I’m pretty ok with driving by eyesight. Better sensors that can easily see through fog/rain/snow/whatever? Hell yeah, give them to me.

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          19 days ago

          LiDAR in particular actually kinda sucks at those conditions (basically any form of precipitation). It’s really only good in clear environments.

          • tate
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            619 days ago

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

              • tate
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                217 days 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.

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      3720 days ago

      Elon Musks make engineering orders of magnitude more difficult. Those poor Tesla neoslaves

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        2819 days ago

        They were on the path of self driving cars till Musk pulled the plug on the LiDAR and opted for cameras (cost less). He is directly responsible for why autopilot isn’t so auto.

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          119 days ago

          To be fair, the LiDAR was primarily used for parking. Still a stupid decision to remove it. There were plenty of values it provides…but those cars were never going to drive themselves even if they did have LiDAR.