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> He further states to think about how a human would drive a car, does a human need LiDAR to drive a car? I hate this argument. It doesn't hold for several rea
by blueblisters 5y ago
> He further states to think about how a human would drive a car, does a human need LiDAR to drive a car?
I hate this argument. It doesn't hold for several reasons:
- A human driver has blind spots (which btw Tesla avoids by having cameras surrounding the car)
- Human reactions times are very poor at even moderate speeds
- Human vision is affected by glare
- Humans are terrible at driving in low light conditions
- Humans are terrible at driving in inclement weather - snow storms or heavy rainfall
LIDAR doesn't solve many of these problems but to claim that self driving is solvable by vision alone is a bad take. Multiple sensors add redundancies and reduce errors. Teslas are already equipped with ultrasound sensors and radar so it's not technically solving a Computer Vision only problem.
- atatatat 5y ago> LIDAR doesn't solve many of these problems Radar+sonar do.
- tr1ll10nb1ll 5y agoIt's never about being just able to solve the problems, it's more about solving the problem without spending millions and millions of dollars and still not having a product everyone can use after years.