“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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    8219 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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      3819 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.

      • @[email protected]
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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.