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My rear view camera regularly gets covered with dirt and grime after a highway run during the monsoons. The car has both camera and radar so that I can have re

My rear view camera regularly gets covered with dirt and grime after a highway run during the monsoons. The car has both camera and radar so that I can have reliable assistance while reversing. With this experience in mind I fail to see how Tesla’s camera-only move is reliable for the use cases that they have mentioned.

joewadcan 4y ago
Tesla cameras have sizeable overlap, so if one is obstructed it tries to extract the information from the others. If it can't then it tells you to clean the cameras. It's not perfect but it's better for them (Tesla) and hopefully better long term for all Tesla owners
- dagmx 4y ago
  They have some overlap but not large enough to be reliable. My B pillar is regularly blinded due to their inefficient moisture sealing (called out in their manual instead of fixing it) and sunlight. It causes it to fail to see most things to our side
  - joewadcan 4y ago
    They are reliable enough to use for FSD: https://youtu.be/hx7BXih7zx8 https://youtu.be/hx7BXih7zx8 so i think it's reliable enough for park assist, summon etc. Yeah you're def right about the moisture sealing... it's been hit or miss on production tolerances
    - dagmx 4y ago
      > They are reliable enough to use for FSD I disagree. regular navigate on autopilot and the FSD Beta are still very flakey outside of pristine conditions for me. At this point, I either am expecting Tesla to go ahead with a camera upgrade with an expensive retrofit in the future, or FSD will never fully realize.
  - YeBanKo 4y ago
    If only one camera sees an object, then they can’t use parallax to estimate depths.
droopyEyelids 4y ago
This is something that comes to mind when I see "designed in California" for a product that can't handle snow. Guess the same thing applies to monsoons!
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mrguyorama 4y ago
My VW hides the rear view camera under the emblem, so it isn't exposed to the elements and only flips out when in use. It's brilliant, at least as long as the motor that flips the emblem holds up.

joewadcan 4y ago

Tesla cameras have sizeable overlap, so if one is obstructed it tries to extract the information from the others. If it can't then it tells you to clean the cameras. It's not perfect but it's better for them (Tesla) and hopefully better long term for all Tesla owners

dagmx 4y ago
They have some overlap but not large enough to be reliable. My B pillar is regularly blinded due to their inefficient moisture sealing (called out in their manual instead of fixing it) and sunlight. It causes it to fail to see most things to our side
- joewadcan 4y ago
  They are reliable enough to use for FSD: https://youtu.be/hx7BXih7zx8 https://youtu.be/hx7BXih7zx8 so i think it's reliable enough for park assist, summon etc. Yeah you're def right about the moisture sealing... it's been hit or miss on production tolerances
  - dagmx 4y ago
    > They are reliable enough to use for FSD I disagree. regular navigate on autopilot and the FSD Beta are still very flakey outside of pristine conditions for me. At this point, I either am expecting Tesla to go ahead with a camera upgrade with an expensive retrofit in the future, or FSD will never fully realize.
- YeBanKo 4y ago
  If only one camera sees an object, then they can’t use parallax to estimate depths.

droopyEyelids 4y ago

This is something that comes to mind when I see "designed in California" for a product that can't handle snow. Guess the same thing applies to monsoons!

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mrguyorama 4y ago

My VW hides the rear view camera under the emblem, so it isn't exposed to the elements and only flips out when in use. It's brilliant, at least as long as the motor that flips the emblem holds up.