Tesla phases out radar sensors, shifts to camera-based autopilot
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/tesla-phases-out-radar-sensors-shifts-to-camera-based-autopilot/
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Musk has been famously opposed to lidar technology, which uses pulses of
laser light to detect objects. He’s since soured on radar, which uses
radio waves to do the same thing. Tesla’s sensor suite previously relied
on radar as well as eight cameras.
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“Beginning with deliveries in May 2021, Model 3 and Model Y vehicles
built for the North American market will no longer be equipped with
radar. Instead, these will be the first Tesla vehicles to rely on camera
vision and neural net processing to deliver Autopilot, Full-Self Driving
and certain active safety features.”
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I can imagine that radar or lidar is only adding redundancy. An object
"illuminated" by either of these from a head-on signal won't have any
shadows or depth, making them mostly blobs. It seems at best, they could
be used in conjunction with cameras, perhaps adding a bit of safety if
the radar or lidar detected an obstruction that the cameras didn't.
Peri
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