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How would satellite imagery help at night, during cloudy/stormy weather? What sort of latency does the imagery have? Can commercial imagery even resolve things
by kec 3y ago
How would satellite imagery help at night, during cloudy/stormy weather? What sort of latency does the imagery have? Can commercial imagery even resolve things like painted lane markers, construction detour signage, etc?
- ForestCritter 3y agocar meet deer meet death in my neck of the woods anyway. Satteltes can't predict deer. Most of the time we can't even predict them.
- coffeebeqn 3y agoThere’s also a much easier method - just get the delta of every Tesla on the road to the speed limit and you can see how well traffic flows. All the navigation apps already do that
- throwaway914 3y agoPart of the problem is reacting in real-time. The part I'm talking about: Is you can "tell" the car what to expect at this interchange, and still react in real-time to present conditions. You hear all the time about Teslas driving off a ramp or not changing lanes quick enough due to odd paint stripes on the road, and I keep thinking you can see this from space. Why isn't there a database of known "this is a road, this is not a road" that it looks at first before looking at surrounding cameras outside the car? You can see how traffic moves -> from space. Part of these conditions are known well ahead of time on any present day regardless of the weather.
- Zigurd 3y agoThere is such a database, but Tesla relies on camera images for the data while nearly everyone else uses LIDAR to create a 3D model in addition to camera images (which can be mapped onto the 3D point cloud, enhancing their value). Camera-only is a bet-the-company move considering the large slice of Tesla'a valuation based on future robotaxi revenue.