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giantrobotyesterday at 9:37 PM1 replyview on HN

> Elon has said several times that humans can drive with two eyes and Tesla should be able...

And this is an amazingly stupid statement. Humans drive with most of their senses, not just vision. In fact our proprioception plays an important role in driving.

Even Tesla's use of cameras is poor because they're monocular and fixed in place. Most humans have binocular vision and those visual sensors have multiple degrees of freedom and the ability to adjust focus.

Even if you wanted to only use vision for navigation it's irresponsible to not use binocular configurations that get more reliable depth sensing.


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BurningFrogyesterday at 11:47 PM

The Tesla Model Y has 9 cameras.

That's enough for vastly more depth perception than any human eyes.

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