alt Hacker NewsI'm not an expert on ML vision, but I do have a Tesla and it seems to be able to tell how far away things are just fine. I'm not sure what would be wrong with the vision system that lidar needs to fix.
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Luckily everyone else in the comments is an expert. And also doesn't recognize that Tesla's already drive themselves and did not need Lidar. They also mischaracterize the reasoning.
Yeah it's BS. Tesla uses lidar where it makes sense: They have a small lidar fleet to collect ground truth depth data for better vision estimation. This part is long solved.
> I'm not sure what would be wrong with the vision system that lidar needs to fix.
This conversational disconnect is as old as the hills:
1. Person 1 asks "what's wrong" (if it ain't broke don't fix it)
2. Person 2 wants to make something better
My meta-goal here on HN (and many places where people converse) is for people to step back and recognize the conversational context and not fall into the predictable patterns that prevent us from making sense of the world as best as we can.
The phantom braking issue with auto pilot tells me it can’t. A shadow from a tree doesn’t trigger your brakes locking up at 70+ mph when there’s a lidar sensor to tell you it’s not a physical object.
“Just buy FSD” isn’t a reasonable answer to a problem literally no other automaker suffers from.