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1966 Ford Mustang Converted into a Tesla with Working 'Full Self-Driving'

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Re: 1966 Ford Mustang Converted into a Tesla with Working 'Full Self-Driving'

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Post by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS »

saratogacx wrote: post #35
hnav wrote: post #25

Retro-electric stuff makes so little sense since it's the worst of all worlds. Part of why Teslas get decent range is the slippery body. I wince every time I see people clamoring for the VW Scout reboot. Rivian too with their 140kwh batteries just to give people that nostalgic body-on-frame SUV look with usable range.

You don't take on projects like this because you're on a mission to make the most efficient vehicle. Lots of people are paid good money to do that and produce the slip-slugs we have today. A project like this is to have a fun experience in a vehicle that was never designed to drive with electric qualities. I don't need the most efficient vehicle for my use so I could afford to trade some of that for fun. I'd probably…

> slip-slugs

That's a good one. I'm partial to David Frieberger's "mobility blobs".

Re: 1966 Ford Mustang Converted into a Tesla with Working 'Full Self-Driving'

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Post by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS »

xbar wrote: post #100
hnav wrote: post #25

Retro-electric stuff makes so little sense since it's the worst of all worlds. Part of why Teslas get decent range is the slippery body. I wince every time I see people clamoring for the VW Scout reboot. Rivian too with their 140kwh batteries just to give people that nostalgic body-on-frame SUV look with usable range.

Correct. Not sensible at all. Except so much more sensible than retro-petroleum stuff. Watching my brother-in-law buy a 1971 Chevelle for his 16-year old daughter because she thought it looked cool only to have him sell it at a fat loss 3 months later because she couldn't choke down the gasoline fumes driving out of the school parking lot every day was instructive.

Sounds like the dude needs to learn how to fix exhaust leaks.

Re: 1966 Ford Mustang Converted into a Tesla with Working 'Full Self-Driving'

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Post by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS »

hnav wrote: post #19
zthrowaway wrote: post #16

As a classic car owner/hobbyist, this disgusts me. But thankfully there are at least 200k other restored/restorable 60s Mustangs out there.

Good news is that you can get a brand new 66 shell stamped in Taiwan for about 20k.

I wonder if they're as "good" as the Chinese AE86 shells.

Re: 1966 Ford Mustang Converted into a Tesla with Working 'Full Self-Driving'

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Post by amluto »

omgwtfbyobbq wrote: post #76
amluto wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’m not sure this has much to do with vision as opposed to fancy self-calibration software. At least a few years ago, Tesla cars would be in self-calibration mode for a while after delivery while they calibrated their cameras. I think the idea is that it’s cheaper to figure out in software where everything is than to calibrate the camera mounts and lenses at the factory. I see no reason that LiDAR couldn’t participat…

It probably could, but I imagine a LIDAR system would need a similar (large) amount of training data to enable effective self-calibration across a wide variety of situations. At some point, with enough sensor suites, we might be able to generalize better and have effective lower(?)-shot training for self-calibration of sensor suites.

Isn’t the model needed rather similar to what’s needed for sensor fusion in general? If you can extract features from each sensor that you expect to match to features from a different sensor, then you can collect a bunch of samples of this sort of data and then use it to fit the transformation between one sensor’s world space and another sensor’s world space.

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Post by dylan604 »

scottyah wrote: post #91
dylan604 wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So many cars come with lane assist and adaptive cruise control. You can google those terms for yourself. I don't bother with lmgtfy requests. You're a big boy/girl, and teaching you to fish it much better effort. They also don't cost an additional $10k on top of the price of the car. They are just part of the price of the car.

Maybe the lmgtfy would be a good exercise for you. Ford's BlueCruise, GM's SuperCruise, Rivian's Autonomy+, and Mercedes-Benz’s Drive Pilot all cost money.

Maybe re-reading what I wrote would help you lmgtfy.

Re: 1966 Ford Mustang Converted into a Tesla with Working 'Full Self-Driving'

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Post by sandworm101 »

A 66 mustang ... without the sound? A lion without a roar.

And at these prices, you would reduce far more carbon by investing that money in solar panels. 50k buys at least a 20kw system that would more than make up for your summer weekend drives in a classic mustang.

Re: 1966 Ford Mustang Converted into a Tesla with Working 'Full Self-Driving'

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Post by yieldcrv »

jerlam wrote: post #57
yieldcrv wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

that's what Waymo is doing, in their implementation of this idea the "waymo driver" is software intended to be licensed out to vehicles or vehicle chassis with applicable hardware so if you thought the waymo car rollout was fast and sudden, wait until companies no longer need their own training data, it'll be like a switch got flipped

Tesla has also offered their FSD to other companies, with no takers: https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-tesla-fsd-licensin... However, Tesla hasn't achieved anywhere near the autonomy of Waymo, so that may be the main sticking point.

nobody trusts non-lidar except tesla buyers
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