Tesla Model Y Is Spotted Testing LiDAR With Manufacturer Plates

[DJVoorhees]

Interesting development.

Tesla Model Y Is Spotted Testing LiDAR With Manufacturer Plates

A Tesla Model Y with California manufacturer plates was photographed with lidars on the roof in Palm Beach, Florida. Did Tesla change its mind about them?

insideevs.com

 

[diplomat33]

Interesting development.

Tesla Model Y Is Spotted Testing LiDAR With Manufacturer Plates

A Tesla Model Y with California manufacturer plates was photographed with lidars on the roof in Palm Beach, Florida. Did Tesla change its mind about them?

insideevs.com

We've seen this before. Tesla uses lidar to collect data to help validate the camera vision. As far as we know, Tesla is not planning to actually put lidar on consumer cars.

 

[BlueMX75D]

This is old news. We have seen the same Model Y in 5 months ago.

Tesla Model Y spotted with new sensors and equipment

A rather unique Tesla Model Y with sophisticated imaging equipment has been spotted recently in the San Francisco area. The vehicle, which is equipped with manufacturer plates, features what seems to be imaging equipment on its roof rack, including what appears to be several LiDAR sensors...

www.teslarati.com

 

[Barklikeadog]

No lidar, no fsd

 

[DJVoorhees]

No lidar, no fsd

Elon painted himself into a corner on that subject.

 

[mark95476]

They've been supposedly ground-truthing vision with LIDAR since last year. I've mostly passed MS and here's a MX from a few weeks ago..

 

[Bladerskb]

They've been supposedly ground-truthing vision with LIDAR since last year. I've mostly passed MS and here's a MX from a few weeks ago..

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You can't ground truth without limiting yourself to the camera data supervised with this tiny lidar fleet.

 

[shrineofchance]

Tesla has actually used lidar to obtain ground truth data since at least 2016:

Tesla still has no plans to use LiDAR in consumer vehicles, but does use the tech for 'ground truthing'

As we reported last month, Tesla’s plans to bring self-driving cars to market without using LiDAR sensors are raising a...

electrek.co

Another potential use for test vehicles with lidar is sensor-supervised learning. This is something Karpathy has discussed. The lidar automatically labels a bunch of camera-derived data with the correct depths. That labelled data then becomes training data for NNs that use only camera input to estimate depth.

 

[Cuttin]

I just saw one NJ with manufacturer plates also. Got some nice pics. Seems a bit crazy to be using this to validate tesla AP across country, but I don't know much. Some detailed pics if anyone has more info.

 

[Tam]

We've seen this before. Tesla uses lidar to collect data to help validate the camera vision. As far as we know, Tesla is not planning to actually put lidar on consumer cars.

I thought the last time LIDAR was for the FSD video demo filming in 2016.

 

[Tam]

I just saw one NJ with manufacturer plates also. Got some nice pics. Seems a bit crazy to be using this to validate tesla AP across country, but I don't know much. Some detailed pics if anyone has more info...

Does that spell Luminar? Why would Telsa use Luminar that made the showcase in 2022 CES that Tesla would hit a dummy?

 

[AndreP]

That Tesla looks to be owned by the California DMV based on the license plate right, that's how I'm interpreting it

 

[Cuttin]

Does that spell Luminar? Why would Telsa use Luminar that made the showcase in 2022 CES that Tesla would hit a dummy?

Yes. Here's the close up.

 

[Cuttin]

That Tesla looks to be owned by the California DMV based on the license plate right, that's how I'm interpreting it

I'm assuming MFG stands for manufacturer, so it's tesla that owns the car and is using luminar lidar.

 

[AndreP]

I'm assuming MFG stands for manufacturer, so it's tesla that owns the car and is using luminar lidar.

Is the “dmv.ca.gov” text typical for a manufacturer plate from California?

 

[Tam]

Is the “dmv.ca.gov” text typical for a manufacturer plate from California?

I've gotten quite a few CA plates and that phrase “dmv.ca.gov” has been on mine including my last 3 Tesla cars. They are owned by me, a non-business person, unrelated to "MFG" and mine don't ever have "MFG" ever.

 

[Bikeman]

Just because a plate is a MFG registration, it doesn't mean the car is owned by Tesla. Just saying.

 

[zigmeister]

Was really going to start a new thread and watch the flamefest begin...but there is 0% chance Tesla will ever get Vision only working reliably for FSC/City street driving using the current camera system/vision.

Will test this statement out here.

Then I will just provide 1 simple photo of the Tesla screen once this erupts and see how people justify and claim it will and the message on my screen doesn't mean anything.

 

[AndreP]

I've gotten quite a few CA plates and that phrase “dmv.ca.gov” has been on mine including my last 3 Tesla cars. They are owned by me, a non-business person, unrelated to "MFG" and mine don't ever have "MFG" ever.

Interesting, I had never seen text like that on a license plate before

 

[Tam]

Interesting, I had never seen text like that on a license plate before

If you have a California plate, there's a way to skip the phrase “dmv.ca.gov” by paying more with a personalized plate.

You can pay about $900 for a digital plate (it's a programmable 2400 x 1034 UHD display) but if you don't pay for a personalized plate, you still can't escape the phrase “dmv.ca.gov”: