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I believe all of the hardware is installed in every model 3 by default, allowing the ‘full self driving’ upgrade to be sold at the flip of a switch. IIRC this
by TimSchumann 5y ago
I believe all of the hardware is installed in every model 3 by default, allowing the ‘full self driving’ upgrade to be sold at the flip of a switch.
IIRC this is true of the Model 3 and the Model Y, and possibly certain generations onwards of the S and X — though I’m less sure about those two.
- johnnyApplePRNG 5y agoThis sounds like the scammy computer sales company I worked for as a teenager. We charged $120 to upgrade to a black tower and monitor (white towers and monitors were so last year at the time), but surprise surprise... if you didn't pay for the upgrade, we gave you a black tower and monitor anyways as a "gift to you". All of our computers were always black.
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- FartyMcFarter 5y agoThe real problem is that "full self driving" doesn't exist (and isn't even close to existing), but they're selling it.
- stavros 5y ago* For small values of "full".
- paulcole 5y agoWhat I don’t get is until “full self driving” is available, how can we know what hardware is needed to achieve it?
- eterevsky 5y agoThey might be thinking as follows: a human can self-drive a car. If we give the car enough sensors to get all the sensory data that a human driver gets, then implementing self-driving is just a matter of software.
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- paulcole 5y agoBut how do they know they’ve given it enough sensors? They can be confident sure, but as we all know confidence is the food of the wise man but the liquor of the fool.
- eterevsky 5y agoI'm just speculating, but you could test this as follows: transmit the data from the sensors and let a human driver control the vehicle remotely using video and audio feed that they collect from the sensors. If this turns out similar to driving a car in person, then they could deduce that they do collect enough data for self-driving.
- paulcole 5y agoBut that only proves that they've got enough sensors to allow a human to drive the car. Until the car is actually self-driving they won't know for sure if there are enough sensors for self-driving. They're making a statement of fact based on a leap of faith.
- jacquesm 5y agoAh, the eternal 'small matter of implementation', I've heard that one before.
- avereveard 5y agoHere's the fun part: the hardware already changed, twice, since that claim.