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I still don't understand the decision to get rid of all the other sensors they used to employ. Yes, a human can drive using only video input (though sound and t
by mckirk 5y ago
I still don't understand the decision to get rid of all the other sensors they used to employ. Yes, a human can drive using only video input (though sound and touch definitely help), but humans have an eternity in evolutionary pressure behind them to achieve that feat.
It would have made so much more sense to keep the sensors for the ramp-up, even if just as a fallback. Then you could validate the decisions made based on visual information, until the collected data indicate that the system is robust enough to function on visual alone.
- sushid 5y agoThe COVID models of the car don't have the old sensors because they couldn't supply the parts. I'm not saying that's a good reason for disabling them on older versions of the car but that's what Tesla decided to do. If I'm being honest, I don't understand their obsession with using only cameras for FSD. It needs to have high beams on just for lane assist on highways at night now, which seems absurd to me.
- mckirk 5y agoI think it could be a case of "they were so preoccupied with wondering whether they could that they didn't stop to think whether they should". Without a doubt, FSD using only visual input would be the gold standard and awesome to _have already figured out_, but working backwards from that and disregarding the usefulness of "training wheels" in form of other sensors might not have been the best decision.