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Autopilot uses a forward facing camera & radar. It sounds like the truck came in at a perpendicular angle. It may have been in the cone of sight for the camera
by krschultz 10y ago
Autopilot uses a forward facing camera & radar. It sounds like the truck came in at a perpendicular angle. It may have been in the cone of sight for the camera but not the radar depending on how those are setup.
The 360 degree sensors on the Tesla are for parking only (< 20 feet range).
Personally when I worked on a self driving car we were going with 360 degree camera and doing path planning based on that, but Tesla has opted not to do that.
- Johnie 10y agoDoesn't a 360 degree camera require it to be placed on top of the car?
- krschultz 10y agoYou could merge multiple cameras in software, it's actually pretty straightforward to stitch them together in OpenCV. Basically just have to correct for the difference between cameras & their physical locations, but that is trivial since they are statically mounted on the car.