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Well no one knows how to get to level 5 since it doesn't exist yet. But there doesn't seem to be any theoretical reason why maps+vision+radar can't scale to lev

• darkpuma 8y ago
  Their radar doesn't have the angular resolution to do anything other than adaptive cruise control, and while they boast 360˚ camera coverage, whatever stereoscopic data they are getting from those cameras is evidently insufficient to detect a large firetruck parked in the middle of the street. Now consider MobilEye, a subsidiary of Intel and a major player in the field of camera/radar driver assist technology. Tesla was using MobilEye tech, until MobilEye terminated that relationship because they believed Tesla was being irresponsible with how far they were pushing MobilEye's tech. MobilEye had a financial incentive to see Tesla succeed with a camera/radar only solution, and continues to have a financial incentive to downplay the necessity of LIDAR. But do they? No. Instead you've got MobilEye's CEO Amnon Shashua talking about the virtues of a combined LIDAR/radar and camera/radar solution, while trash talking Elon Musk for being irresponsible. When you consider who is saying what and what their financial incentives are, it becomes clear that Amnon Shashua is an ethical person and Elon is a car salesman who is making technically unfalsifiable claims about the capabilities of the hardware in Tesla cars to profit from automation hype.