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Fog and heavy rain are not “tests he intentionally created to make Lidar look better.”

• nashashmi 2y ago
  The extreme fog and heavy rain are dramatic conditions that no existing driver can navigate within. These conditions make a strong case for involving advanced tech, i.e. a better LiDAR. And that is what happened here: a scenario that no driver without assisted tools can pass, and neither can a Tesla. Do you remember when Tesla had radar? The idea was brilliant at a time when LiDAR tech was difficult to get en masse. Radar plus camera does what LiDAR could do at lower computing powers.
  • jjav 2y ago
    > The extreme fog and heavy rain are dramatic conditions that no existing driver can navigate within. Yes, humans can (I have) driven in extreme rain or fog where one can barely see one car length ahead. How? Simply by slowing down until you can see a few seconds ahead so there's time to stop if anything shows up in the field of (very limited) view. The tesla software just continued at constant speed even though it couldn't see anything, completely oblivious. That's the difference between a human driver and bad software.
    • nashashmi 2y ago
      That is an additional driving logic: if you can’t see in front of you, stop driving. But the test here was to avoid hitting the mannequin. In that perspective, the only form of evaluation is cam vs. lidar tech. The software is only as good as the human who programmed it.
• thefourthchime 2y ago
  It wasn't fog, it was smoke. Lighters can't see through fog well