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Once you have drive-by-wire and a sensor array, self-driving is a pure software problem. This is correct, but only if you have the right drive-by-wire and sens
by onion2k 4y ago
Once you have drive-by-wire and a sensor array, self-driving is a pure software problem.
This is correct, but only if you have the right drive-by-wire and sensor array tech. Essentially what you're saying is "Once you solve the hardware problem the rest is just software" which isn't particularly insightful.
What happens if Tesla can't solve the software problem because the sensors aren't providing the necessary data?
- rossmohax 4y agoadd more inaccurate sensors and do corrections in software? We have photos of black holes out of almost a pure noise, surely it is possible to build self driving car with current gen of hardware.
- onion2k 4y agoadd more inaccurate sensors The point here is that Tesla have already sold the $10k FSD sensor pack to people and told them that one day in the future a software update will provide FSD, with no additional sensors necessary. Adding more sensors is not an option (well, maybe Tesla will do that for people who bought the upgrade, but it seems unlikely they'd do that for free.)
- polygamous_bat 4y agoOne part of the argument you are missing is that FSD requires real-time decision making as well, so when complexity goes up with a larger number of inaccurate sensors that can become an issue. No one cares if getting a picture of a black hole from noisy data takes one year to process, the same is not true for self driving.
- javajosh 4y ago>what you're saying .. which isn't particularly insightful. Which was my point. I'm intentionally making silly arguments that are valid from first principles, but clearly wrong in the real world. I'm sorry that wasn't obvious because I endeavored to make it so.