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Because the important part is the software that interprets that data. Our eyes get worse data than lidar, yet our brains are able to process this data more eff
by sixQuarks 6y ago
Because the important part is the software that interprets that data.
Our eyes get worse data than lidar, yet our brains are able to process this data more effectively.
Also, lidar is super expensive. It will take much longer to get affordable lidar into everyday vehicles.
- jcranmer 6y agoThe hardware necessary to emulate our brain capabilities with neural nets is several orders of magnitude more expensive than lidar. Running with a more responsible hardware stack means the software has to be more cleverly designed, and that design is mostly not in the just-throw-data-at-a-neural-net stage. Building your visible-light-only driving system is going to cause you to struggle a lot harder at getting a good subroutine for "how far away is that object?" while providing you no benefit to solving the harder problem of "what will that object react to my coming nearer to it?"
- sixQuarks 6y agoI was using an analogy with the brain. You don't have to replicate a brain for full self driving.