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Have you ever been blinded by the sun? Visual cameras can be blinded by the sun too. But radar can't. Engineering safety is typically done through redundancy.
by jqpabc123 1y ago
Have you ever been blinded by the sun?
Visual cameras can be blinded by the sun too. But radar can't.
Engineering safety is typically done through redundancy. Tesla has no redundancy in their self driving system; it's all visual. If it's vision gets obscured by weather or darkness or the sun, it is essentially driving blind.
- edgineer 1y agoIf one or more of the multiple cameras are obscured, the car will alert you to the degraded state. If conditions are particularly bad like in a snowstorm, FSD will refuse to engage. It doesn't drive blind.
- jqpabc123 1y agoIt doesn't drive blind. This is part of the problem. When it becomes blinded, it disengages --- right before the crash. https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/tesla-rejected-60-million-settlement-before-losing-243-million-autopilot-verdict-2025-08-25/ https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/tesla-rejected-60-m...
- edgineer 1y agoThe Tesla crash in the story you linked to didn't involve FSD, blinding, nor disengagement. Did you mean to link to a different article?