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FSD without LIDAR/radar is a fool's errand. Camera-only systems just do not pull in enough data to drive on real roads around real hazards. For one they do not
by giantrobot 5y ago
FSD without LIDAR/radar is a fool's errand. Camera-only systems just do not pull in enough data to drive on real roads around real hazards.
For one they do not actual approximate human eyes since our eyes themselves are gimbaled in our skulls and our skull is gimbaled on our necks. Our eyes can switch their focus very quickly and return to scanning very easily.
Not only are we processing the visual information but also feedback from all of our body positioning and other sensory inputs. Driving heavily relies on our proprioception.
Fully autonomous cars need a lot of different sensors and processing power. Even driver assist should be using a lot of sensors. Autonomous driving needs more and better sensors than humans because it needs to deal with humans that are both smarter and more irrational than the automation. Besides conscious abilities humans have a lot of inherent self-preservation instincts that might be locally optimum for survival but globally poor choices.
Tesla scrimping on sensors because their boss is an egomaniac is the height of hubris. A web service moving fast and breaking things and choosing cheap but redundant options is fine. Usually the worst that happens is people lose money or some data. Moving fast and breaking things in a car is literally life and death. Musk's hubris around FSD is sociopathic.
- tsimionescu 5y agoEven worse, we actually rely heavily on our knowledge of the world, common sense,and physical intuition to make sense of our vision. Put a human in a room with no shadows, unrecognizable objects, and misleadingly sized objects (tiny cars, huge animals), and then watch them fail to judge distances or other vision tasks.