Barklikeadog
Active Member
I've always thought that a couple other items are required... Lidar, and the ability for cars to communicate position and velocity with each other. If you -really- wanted to make it work, cure congestion, etc,...Capability. And while Im nowhere NEAR an expert on autonomous driving (or even regular driving..LOL)...I have sense enough to know. That whats in place TODAY on a 2022 Tesla? Is NOT going to be enough to do what the CEO of Tesla has promised, what FSD will be "capable" of doing.
The job might get done right, but it won't be for any autos currently on the road. There's your sanity check.Just a quick sanity check here.
The cameras in my MS can see a lot more than I can see and can do so simultaneously. The image processing core digests all those different camera angles continuously without feeling the need to check its email. In short, my MS vision dramatically exceeds my own and yet I can drive from NY to LA without intervention from my wife although she would likely dispute the need for intervention.
So, what is missing here is not a sensor suite that can do the job but a brain that and work with the existing MS sensor suite that far exceeds mine.
The question for me is if the processing power is sufficient to out perform the average human to a significant enough degree that we will accept the machine's carnage over that of the average person.
It seems to me that Elon is correct when he says things like Lidar is nothing more than an expensive crutch. Do the job right and you do not need more than vision.