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Their decision to entirely rely on computer vision seems unwise
by tcoff91 1y ago
Their decision to entirely rely on computer vision seems unwise
- trainsarebetter 1y agoShort term, perhaps, long term they might end up with a more generalized robot operating system. It’s definitely more flexible
- gonzo41 1y agoSeems like a mistake not to be a sensor maximalist. Why not try and get as many data streams onboard as possible. Seems like the generalized robot OS would be better if it was a data fusion platform.
- trainsarebetter 1y agoThat’s a good point. I coming from the perspective that waymo is more of a “dead reckoning” approach compared to Tesla long(and maybe never ending) road.
- smallmancontrov 1y agoTheir decision to rely on vision got them billions of miles of training data from every corner of the USA. It did not get them point clouds, but monocular depth estimation works extremely well these days, so would it really have been that valuable? It looks to me like they made a shrewd bet and won big.
- seanmcdirmid 1y agoThey didn’t count on LIDAR falling in price so rapidly with their bet.
- smallmancontrov 1y agoThe cameras that collected those billions of miles of data were installed up to 10 years ago. You can't teleport today's LIDAR prices into the past.
- seanmcdirmid 1y agoYes, but it’s pretty easy to drive a car around with a LiDAR unit, you can couple it with Google maps data collection.
- smallmancontrov 1y agoThey didn't drive around a collection car, they had their customers drive millions of collection cars for billions of miles.
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- tantalor 1y ago"LiDAR is gay" - Elon, probably
- CamperBob2 1y agoNext up from Musk: "Cameras are unreliable, and radar is woke. The Force is all you need."
- Smoosh 1y ago“acoustic environment sensing”