I wondered what caused that, startles me every time it does that because it
brakes hard.
On Friday, May 28, 2021, 5:39:29 AM CDT, Mark Laity-Snyder via EV
<ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote:
So how do you determine what has priority using both vision and radar? One of
the problems Tesla has is phantom breaking. If you use both, You have a
situation where one could be saying go and the other says break. Obviously
breaking has to override go to be safe. But then the car can break when not
needed and you get rear ended because the guy behind saw no reason for your
breaking because there was none.
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> IMO, Musk is not smart enough to listen to his AP team. (some of the best
> people in the world at this) He's known for firing people who resist his
> ideas.
>
> I use Tesla AP all the time, and often in heavy Bay Area traffic. One of
> the cool tricks radar enabled is detecting a car in front of another car in
> front of you. For instance, say a Honda Civic is in front, followed by a
> Ford Excursion. The Honda slams on his brakes, but the Excursion guy is on
> his phone and doesn't see the Honda until it's too late. My radar-equipped
> Tesla will slow down as soon as the Honda does, giving more time for cars
> to react behind me. It's literally saved the day on more than one
> occasion.
>
> Elon's theory is "People drive with vision only, they don't have Lidar or
> Radar". That's bullshit. Driver assistance systems have to be superhuman
> if we are going to let them have full authority. It can't just be "as good
> as a human", it has to be 100 or even 1000 times better than a human, or it
> will never be allowed to assume full control. Radar is cheap superhero
> capability.
>
> I think what happened is the semiconductor shortage impacted Tesla's radar
> supply, so they found a work-around.
>
>
> On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 11:16 AM EVDL Administrator via EV <
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>> Sometimes I really wonder about Tesla. With the less than stellar
>> reputation that autopilot already has, it seems odd that they would
>> actually
>> delete some of the system's "eyes." For the sake of EVs in general, I
>> sure
>> hope they know what they're doing.
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