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You'd be a lot less enamored if you were on or near roadways on foot, bike, or motorcycle. Or drove a truck or vehicle with a trailer. There are several self-d

You'd be a lot less enamored if you were on or near roadways on foot, bike, or motorcycle. Or drove a truck or vehicle with a trailer. There are several self-driving vehicle projects that have logged far better safety records than human drivers. They have radar and lidar units. Musk has insisted on solely cameras, which are far cheaper, but suffer from a slew of entirely predictable vision problems. Just hit up youtube and search for "tesla phantom braking."

dragontamer 5y ago
To be fair, Teslas were using Radars until suddenly a chip shortage made all the Radars hard to find. All of a sudden: Tesla scrubs its blog (which used to talk about all the wonderful benefits of RADAR), removes all RADAR from future vehicles, and talks about how AI has advanced to make Radar unnecessary. Its pretty funny watching this in realtime. Surely, Elon Musk has heard of archive.org? You can't just scrub your blog and hope that people forget... in fact, scrubbing your blog makes these things more easily seen. https://web.archive.org/web/20210418114757/https://www.tesla.com/blog/upgrading-autopilot-seeing-world-radar https://web.archive.org/web/20210418114757/https://www.tesla... What was the famous line in 1984? We were always at war with Eastasia.
- nwiswell 5y ago
  > Its pretty funny watching this in realtime Yes, Streisanding your disregard for public safety is hilarious. Elon should do prime-time comedy. Hey wait a minute...