Daniel in SD
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The car can shift between forward and reverse way faster than a human. Jump out five feet to look and then jump back if there's a car coming. No problem.
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The car can shift between forward and reverse way faster than a human. Jump out five feet to look and then jump back if there's a car coming. No problem.
The car can shift between forward and reverse way faster than a human. Jump out five feet to look and then jump back if there's a car coming. No problem.
I have a Model 3 with FSD and have been thinking about this a lot lately. Telsa should add cameras up by th front headlights that look left and right. like on the side of the car right up at the front. That way when the car noses into an intersection, they can see cars coming that the driver cannot if there is a parked car in the way.
I'll always argue for more sensors, redundant ones, overlapping ones, different vendors and tech (diversity).
I don't care if I pay an extra $1k for my car; I want all the view angles I can get if this car is going to take any active role in driving.
I'm convinced the m3 does not have enough sensors, period. it will never achieve l4 or l5 on its current hw.
tesla deep down knows that and I suspect they are just buying time, at this point.
and again, people such as myself keep bringing up the fact that none of our body-mounted cameras except the cluster of them on the windshield are self-cleaning or self-defogging.
I'm willing to bet the early designs (probably S) had redundant and self-cleaning cameras but that they nixed it due to cost.
I've been puzzling a bit on why there aren't cameras on the extreme left and right upper windshield. Seems like logical places to see lane markings, see around the car in front of you, and would address the scenario you describe.
Is it just me or do i spot a lidar on that test mule?
Tesla has said in the past, even the article you posted from Electrek has it.Either Tesla is secretly using lidar to help train their camera vision or Tesla is secretly considering adding lidar on their next sensor suite.
Tesla has said in the past, even the article you posted from Electrek has it.
They use Lidar to validate their sensor suite.
I still don't understand the concern here regarding the lack of perimeter cameras. Tesla's goal isn't to make a self driving car with super human abilities. It doesn't need to travel at 100+ MPH at night in the rain or fly through intersections without stopping. It just needs to function as good as a human in regards to capability. If it has that, it will then automatically be safer as it will never get distracted or incapacitated. So as it stands now, the sensor suite is already better then humans as I can't see 360 degrees around me at all times, nor do I have forward facing radar, yet I can still navigate this world. When it comes to blind intersections, I don't get out of the car to get a view that my bumper has. AP should be no different in that it can slowly creep out until it has the view it needs to safely pull though and maybe make a note to avoid routing though that intersection in the future if possible (just like we do now).
My only concern is the viability of true L5 with the current sensors. The pillar cams fog up and have no way to clear themselves. The fender cams get water over the lenses in heavy rain which results in almost no visibility. If a human driver gets their view blocked, they will wipe the window clear to see the side mirrors, but these cameras can't do that. I can see issues where a camera loses visibility and the car will have to go into some sort of limp mode where it has to limit what it can do and then safely pull over for the rider to then clear the camera. Thankfully this isn't an issue in most conditions, but it still happens.
Yes I mentioned that. I said in my post that Tesla could be using the lidar to help train their camera vision.