I fully agree with you, but there is the issue of robotaxis crashing 3x as often as human drivers - and thats with a human supervisor on board. So if we switched completely to AI cars with the current level of integration, thats 120000 people killed.
New HW4 Teslas do in fact include a front-facing radar, but it’s currently only used for collecting data - not for FSD.
Still, gotta give them credit for getting by with vision-only quite well. I don’t personally see any practical reason why you absolutely must include LiDAR. We already know driving relatively safely with vision only is possible - all the best drivers in the world do it.
LiDAR lets you see better than humans, so why wouldn’t you use it? What about fog, darkness, or other common roadside conditions?
Ignoring the best sensors means they can never surpass the safety of other self-driving vehicles. It was short sighted (pun intended) to remove that hardware. They have intentionally crippled their vehicles.
I fully agree with you, but there is the issue of robotaxis crashing 3x as often as human drivers - and thats with a human supervisor on board. So if we switched completely to AI cars with the current level of integration, thats 120000 people killed.
That’s Tesla, not Waymo. Tesla’s hardware is shit and does not even include lidar. You can’t judge the entire industry by the worst example.
New HW4 Teslas do in fact include a front-facing radar, but it’s currently only used for collecting data - not for FSD.
Still, gotta give them credit for getting by with vision-only quite well. I don’t personally see any practical reason why you absolutely must include LiDAR. We already know driving relatively safely with vision only is possible - all the best drivers in the world do it.
LiDAR lets you see better than humans, so why wouldn’t you use it? What about fog, darkness, or other common roadside conditions?
Ignoring the best sensors means they can never surpass the safety of other self-driving vehicles. It was short sighted (pun intended) to remove that hardware. They have intentionally crippled their vehicles.
Tesla made the idiotic decision to rely entirely on cameras, waymo used lidar and other sensors to augment vision.