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You don't need human eye equivalents. Human eyes are probably not the ideal cameras for driving.
This may be the case, you might not have to reproduce everything. But just to give an example that is very relevant to self-driving, getting a camera with similar low-light video performance as the human eye costs over 2000$.
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yes, but Waymo uses high resolution mapping for that particular city. That does not scale.
It does not scale because Elon Musk said so? That HD mapping doesn't scale is the biggest trope in autonomous driving that I see Tesla fans repeating everywhere. Google, for example, has large scale mapping experience and their street view cars have been carrying Lidar sensors for years now. They've already mapped a bunch of cities in the US. Tesla itself uses HD maps for things like intersections, traffic lights and…
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I am disappointed that people remove humanity from people who are successful. We all make mistakes and any prominent figure that doesn't is presenting a facade. I'd rather see someones imperfections and know where I stand than have another generational #metoo
Common, the rest of us are not getting nearly that level of benefit of doubt. The behavior that gets excused for successful or rich people is regularly punished in normal or unsuccessful people. Both unofficially and when law is broken.
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If you go read the court testimony it isn’t as strange as it seems on the face. The diver started the tiff and the insult Musk sent in return was said to be common vernacular in South Africa where he grew up.
Is it also tradition in South Africa to then e-mail press to insist that it investigate the target and pay "private investigators"?
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> It could pay off your (very expensive) Tesla in the matter of a year or two. .. while lota of people unknown to you sit with their butt in your precious expensive car. People who themselves can't (or want to) afford such a car. Not gonna happen. Nobody will throw that much money behind such an expensive gadget, being happ about their precious toy and then let complete strangers user it most of the time. Do you rent…
At that point it will be just another smart investment and not a “shiny toy”.
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Common, the rest of us are not getting nearly that level of benefit of doubt. The behavior that gets excused for successful or rich people is regularly punished in normal or unsuccessful people. Both unofficially and when law is broken.
Are you trying to imply that's Elon Musk's fault, or that if others can't have it, he shouldn't either?
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> Often it says "the camera is blinded" It could very well theoretically be a software issuse.
The human driver has a number of options to adjust their “cameras” (eyes) that the Tesla doesn’t. E.g., flipping down the sun shield, adjusting head position to reduce glare, or even putting on a pair of polarized sunglasses. While there are technical solutions possible with more hardware, it’s not clear that Tesla could correct for some of these things in just software...
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> driverless paid service Which works in one small limited area of the earth because of high-def maps, which is not what you would normally call "scalable".
At some point there was also a car company that only sold a single electrical car model, it was pretty expensive and they didn't make that many cars per year, which is not what you would normally call "scalable." Back to the original goalposts, as far as I know, Waymo is the only company that at this point, does offer a commercial service that's fully driverless. As you point out, they don't cover all of Earth, but n…
> fully driverless
Don't they have safety drivers that closely monitor through wireless connection and often take over? While it might look driverless, it is not technically. This is also another reason why it doesn't scale.
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Nobody in the autonomous car industry had produced anything yet. Tesla has the best system of those actually in use. Their arrogance is about as convincing as that of the rocket companies or car companies that didn't think EV were gone happen. Saying 'in my industry they are joke' is kind of a joke by itself by now. Also Tesla wants to operate a taxi services too so I don't understand your argument.
> Nobody in the autonomous car industry had produced anything yet. Tesla has the best system of those actually in use. Waymo is actually operating a driverless paid service in Arizona [0] with point to point pick up and drop off. Does Tesla actually offer this service today? [0] https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2021/01/04/waymo-driverless-...
Maybe if they role out this program to city after city in short intervals and have 10000+ taxi operating I would consider it.
Waymo does some things Tesla doesn't do, Tesla does things Waymo doesn't do. Tesla clearly has no interest in offering a money losing taxi service in one small city. Just as Waymo has no interest in doing all the work to figure out the meaning of obscure signs on roads in China.
The question is, when can I click on an app, get a car and drive basically anywhere. That is 'the solution'.