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> Getting past the arguments of whether Tesla should be calling this "Autopilot", is its claims about hardware true? Tesla actually hasn't called that Autopilo
by Shank 9y ago
> Getting past the arguments of whether Tesla should be calling this "Autopilot", is its claims about hardware true?
Tesla actually hasn't called that Autopilot -- they refer to it as "full self driving" and not in the same category. But...is it true? It's vaporware right now, so we can't really say.
Obviously, in a purely hypothetical landscape, even with cameras you should be able to emulate what humans can do and have 100% attentiveness. That is to say, humans don't have lidar and radar, yet humans do drive. So, if you can achieve human levels of perfection and have 100% attentiveness, it should be possible to beat out crash statistics based on the fact that many are caused by failure to respond on the human side accurately or fast enough.
This is all hypothetical, though. All of it comes down to computer vision/software, which is really hard to do. It's possible, but not yet done.
- miskin 9y ago"Autopilot" is the name of the page that danso referred to, is in the title of that page and is used on the page 9 times. How would you possibly not recognize this as name of the feature?
- carlmr 9y ago>Obviously, in a purely hypothetical landscape, even with cameras you should be able to emulate what humans can do and have 100% attentiveness. That is to say, humans don't have lidar and radar, yet humans do drive. Which camera has the same dynamic range as the human eye?
- notahacker 9y agoHumans don't have lidar and radar, but humans permitted to drive have optical hardware which is in all respects except simultaneity of inputs from different directions superior to that which Tesla is claiming is sufficient for full safe driving capability. Much harder to imagine software surpassing alert human driving capabilities if it's not equipped with sensors offering better depth perception that could compensate for lack of general intelligence to process unfolding situations, visual anomalies etc. Harder still if the optical sensors are objectively worse than human ones in many lighting conditions.