This is called tracking and it’s a common problem in robotics. Basically you are trying to figure out 4 things: - If I stop detecting an object, is it still th

This is called tracking and it’s a common problem in robotics. Basically you are trying to figure out 4 things: - If I stop detecting an object, is it still there? - If I do detect something, is it noise or real? - If I have multiple detections, are they the same objects or different ones? - Do detections I’m seeing now correspond to an object I’ve seen in the past? This is normally accomplished with a statistical model that takes noisiness of detections, physics of how objects move, etc into account. Getting tracking right can be very hard, but based on this report, Tesla’s tracking is behind some of it’s competitors.