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BYD's cheapest electric cars to have Lidar self-driving tech

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Re: BYD's cheapest electric cars to have Lidar self-driving tech

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And then made the best adas on the market using cameras

By what metric? In terms of deaths, injuries, and crashes per mile their Full Self Driving at least an order of magnitude behind Waymo

Show the proof then with links to unbias articles and the numbers/math.

Re: BYD's cheapest electric cars to have Lidar self-driving tech

#12

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And then made the best adas on the market using cameras

That’s not true at all. Tesla taxis aren’t even close to Waymo’s capabilities.

I said adas, nothing about waymo. That being said, yes they are, I ride them every day.

Re: BYD's cheapest electric cars to have Lidar self-driving tech

#13

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And then made the best adas on the market using cameras

That’s not true at all. Tesla taxis aren’t even close to Waymo’s capabilities.

Where is the proof/evidence for this statement?

Re: BYD's cheapest electric cars to have Lidar self-driving tech

#14

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And then made the best adas on the market using cameras

By what metric? In terms of deaths, injuries, and crashes per mile their Full Self Driving at least an order of magnitude behind Waymo

Waymo is not an adas. There’s nothing close to FSD 14 abilities out there for consumers.

And your stats comparing to waymo are made up and debunked in the very reddit thread they came from

Re: BYD's cheapest electric cars to have Lidar self-driving tech

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And then made the best adas on the market using cameras

I've struggled with this over the years, but think we can call it at this point: Waymo is definitely better. Just too much real world data. (i.e. scaled paid service, no drivers, multiple cities, for 1 year+)

We being who? What is your evidence it's better? The fact all the cars stopped moving when the power went out? The fact they cost WayMore? Show the evidence for your claims. And they have remote operators as proven by the power outage.

Re: BYD's cheapest electric cars to have Lidar self-driving tech

#17

Lidars come down in price ~40x. https://cleantechnica.com/2025/03/20/lidars-wicked-cost-drop... Meanwhile visible light based tech is going up in price due to competing with ai on the extra gpu need while lidar gets the range/depth side of things for free. Ideally cars use both but if you had to choose one or the other for cost you’d be insane to choose vision over lidar. Musk made an ill timed decision to go vision…

Show the cost differences and do the math then come back to us before you can suggest what decisions were ill timed. Otherwise it's just armchair engineering.

I'd love to take on this challenge: the article they linked shows the cost add for LIDAR (+$130) --

-- but I'm not sure how to get data on ex. how much Tesla is charged for a Nvidia whatever or what compute Waymo has --

My personal take is Waymo uses cameras too so maybe we have to assume the worst case, +full cost of lidar / +$130

Re: BYD's cheapest electric cars to have Lidar self-driving tech

#18

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And then made the best adas on the market using cameras

I've struggled with this over the years, but think we can call it at this point: Waymo is definitely better. Just too much real world data. (i.e. scaled paid service, no drivers, multiple cities, for 1 year+)

Waymo is fully autonomous, FSD is an adas for consumers.

Robotaxi is a separate product. They are fantastic at driving but until they remove supervisors it’s a moot comparison

Re: BYD's cheapest electric cars to have Lidar self-driving tech

#19

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I've struggled with this over the years, but think we can call it at this point: Waymo is definitely better. Just too much real world data. (i.e. scaled paid service, no drivers, multiple cities, for 1 year+)

We being who? What is your evidence it's better? The fact all the cars stopped moving when the power went out? The fact they cost WayMore? Show the evidence for your claims. And they have remote operators as proven by the power outage.

Apologies, I was unclear with the "i.e." bit I assume, to spell it out: I think after struggling with it over years its time to call it because Waymo has a scaled paid service, no drivers, multiple cities, for 1 year+.

Re: BYD's cheapest electric cars to have Lidar self-driving tech

#20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've struggled with this over the years, but think we can call it at this point: Waymo is definitely better. Just too much real world data. (i.e. scaled paid service, no drivers, multiple cities, for 1 year+)

Waymo is fully autonomous, FSD is an adas for consumers. Robotaxi is a separate product. They are fantastic at driving but until they remove supervisors it’s a moot comparison

Ah, I see. ADAS as in "assistance on a car I can buy", makes sense.
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