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There was some discussion, but Tesla has a forward facing radar, but it is mounted lower than the camera and trailers of certain height have been shown to avoid
by gshulegaard 10y ago
There was some discussion, but Tesla has a forward facing radar, but it is mounted lower than the camera and trailers of certain height have been shown to avoid it's detection window.
So, speculatively, it is a double failure:
1) Trailer was high enough to avoid radar
2) Trailer was light enough/low contrast to avoid detection by the camera
- sangnoir 10y agoUpside of working on "boring CRUD apps that won't change the world": your edge-cases won't result in fatalities. I hope Tesla learns something from this, from the outside looking in - they appear to have a cavalier, can-do attitude (nothing wrong with the latter) towards safety engineering. Release beta self-driving software to production vehicles? Yeah, why not?