• RickC137@lemmy.world
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    18 days ago

    What makes you assume that a vision based system performs worse than the average human? Or that it can’t be 20 times safer?

    I think the main reason to go vision-only is the software complexity of merging mixed sensor data. Radar or Lidar alone also have their limitations.

    I wish it was a different company or that Musk would sell Tesla. But I think they are the closest to reaching full autonomy. Let’s see how it goes when FSD launches this year.

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      18 days ago

      Somehow other car companies are managing to merge data from multiple sources fine. Tesla even used to do it, but stopped to shave a few dollars in their costs.

      In terms of assuming there would be safety concerns, well this video clearly demonstrates that adding lidar avoids three scenarios, at least two of them realistic. As I said my standard is not “human driver” but safest options as demonstrated.

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        18 days ago

        Which other system can drive autonomous in potentially any environment without relying on map data?

        If merging data from different sensors increases complexity by factor 5, it’s just not worth it.

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          18 days ago

          One, I don’t know if ‘autonomous no matter what’ is an important enough goal versus ADAS, but for another, the gold standard in the industry except Tesla is vehicle mounted LIDAR, with investments to bring down the tech price.

          Merging data from different sources was never claimed by anyone to be too hard a problem, again, even Tesla used to and decided to downgrade their capabilities for cost. “It’s just not worth it” is a strange take on a video demonstrating quite clearly the better data from LIDAR than you can possibly get from cameras and the benefit of avoiding collisions, collisions that kill thousands a year. Even the relatively “won’t turn on unless things are perfect” autopilot has killed quite a few people, and incurred hundreds of accidents beyond that.

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            18 days ago

            Autopilot is not FSD and I bet many of the deaths were caused by inattentive drivers.

            Which other system has a similar architecture and similar potential?