Nah, SVC are surround view cameras, which are also called parking cameras.
These are pretty standard cameras that are used for bird's eye view feature and for ADAS.
You will find these cameras on any recent car, just go outside and look.
There are 2x on the side mirrors and one on the front bumper and the other on the rear.
So no dual repeater cameras or anything like that.
Not quite, Mobileye invented the trifocal camera and even have a patent for it which Tesla copied.
Same with the 8 camera setup which Tesla also copied.
Then years later in 2017/2018 Mobileye added 4x parking cameras making it 12.
Then they increased the quality of their cameras from ~1mp to 8mp and reduced the number of front cameras from 3 to 2.
Mobileye dropped the fisheye camera and kept the Main and Narrow windshield camera.
Tesla is also copying that now. While also adding the 4x parking cameras.
So its:
- 2x forward cameras (main & narrow)
- 2x rear looking repeater cameras (both sides)
- 2x forward looking camera (both sides)
- 4x parking cameras / surround view cameras (2x side mirrors, front bumper, rear)
- 1x rear facing camera (this is the only difference that Mobileye has that Tesla's new setup does not have)
Mobileye's patent
https://patents.google.com/patent/US20150103159A1/en
Mobileye's trifocal camera
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjRtGKtwOlc
Mobileye already had dozens of automakers testing out the setup and chip in 2014. One of them being Volvo.
Volvo using Mobileye's Trifocal Camera
Mobileye also sent Tesla the trifocal camera before they cloned it.
Tesla Model S test vehicle with multiple cameras spotted near San Francisco
Mobileye previous 8 camera setup
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Mobileye's new 8mp binocular/dual camera