• @FauxLiving@lemmy.world
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      1315 days ago

      Teslas famously don’t use lidar because Musk declared that cameras were good enough. Reality disagrees, but reality owns no shares of Tesla.

      • @BossDj@lemm.ee
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        415 days ago

        The first ten minutes is him “sneaking” in a small lidar unit to Disneyland be using it to make 3d models of the ride path. That’s pretty fun.

      • @Ledericas@lemm.ee
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        415 days ago

        Elon musk dint want lidar because it cost too much, any tesla before 2018 had it, but it introduced update to brick all off them.

    • A decent camera only vision system should still be able to detect the wall. I was actually shocked at the fact that Tesla failed this test so egregiously.

      If you use two side by side cameras you can determine distance to a feature by calculating the offset in position of the feature between the two camera images. I had always assumed this was how Tesla planned to achieve camera only FSD, but that would make too much sense.

      https://www.intelrealsense.com/stereo-depth-vision-basics/

      Even if they wanted to avoid any redundant hardware and only go with one camera for each direction, there is still a chance they could’ve avoided this kind of issue if they used structure through motion, but that’s much harder to do if the objects could be moving.

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure_from_motion