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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 RankingMember »

sottol wrote: post #27

I really like the look of the car, but from the title it sounds like a Mustang has been converted into an FSD Tesla ("teslafied" Mustang) - but Tesla suspension, Tesla interior... this smells like a Mustang body fitted onto a Tesla chassis ("mustangified" Tesla). I suspect that this might be more of a "Mustang body kit" on a Tesla chassis and not retrofitting the Tesla tech into a Mustang chassis + body. Still cool,…

Yep, that's exactly what it is. Still a cool project. For a split-second after reading the headline my brain thought they had gotten the Tesla software (with a lot of hackery) to control an ICE vehicle drive-train.

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

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Post by general1465 »

rootusrootus wrote: post #26
drdebug wrote: post #14

Nice work, but is it just me or does this take away from the car’s original spirit?

You are entitled to your opinion, obviously, as is anyone else. Restomods have been around since forever, and this is hardly the first EV conversion (almost certainly not the first classic Mustang EV restomod either). Personally I think it's pretty damn cool. But I have always been a Mustang fan, and I know that this era of Mustang is not especially collectable. They made quite a large number of them and plenty are s…

It is like putting a Samsung shell on iPhone. It is still an iPhone.

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

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Post by Induane »

public_void wrote: post #37

I used to work at a company that did self driving. The sensor setup was more complicated than Tesla (cameras, lidar, etc), but the fact that FSD can still work on this car despite the cameras being in a different place is really impressive to me. Our sensors were pretty sensitive to accurate calibration, and iirc any time we tried to move our sensor array to a new car it took a ton of work to reconfigure it to make t…

This is one of the real advantages to the (often insulted and/or chastised) vision only approach to FSD.

People can easily adapt to different vehicles in a similar manner.

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

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Post by DonHopkins »

rootusrootus wrote: post #22
t1234s wrote: post #15

I wonder if tesla will see this and try to invalidate the VIN from using FSD

That would be a pretty shortsighted move from a PR standpoint. Nobody is going to blame a restomod FSD wreck on Tesla. But turning off FSD remotely just reminds everyone that Tesla can and will take control of your car.

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

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Post by e44858 »

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.

From the article:

> it achieves 258 Wh/mi — roughly matching the efficiency of an actual Model 3.

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

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loeg wrote: post #24

> It’s likely the first non-Tesla vehicle to run FSD, and it achieves 258 Wh/mi — roughly matching the efficiency of an actual Model 3. This claim is implausible, right? The Mustang is unambiguously less aerodynamic than the Model 3; there's no way it is achieving similar efficiency, especially at highway speeds.

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Post by SoftTalker »

It would be cool if we saw the separation of drivetrain from body in the automobile market. This happens with heavy trucks, you can buy a "glider" which is a completely new, finished rolling chassis and you provide your own engine. Originally done (I think) to skirt emissions laws but it would be cool to be able to buy the body and the EV drivetrain (and maybe battery packs?) from different vendors, and for EV drivetrains to be more easily fittable to older chassis.

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

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Post by amluto »

Induane wrote: post #43
public_void wrote: post #37

I used to work at a company that did self driving. The sensor setup was more complicated than Tesla (cameras, lidar, etc), but the fact that FSD can still work on this car despite the cameras being in a different place is really impressive to me. Our sensors were pretty sensitive to accurate calibration, and iirc any time we tried to move our sensor array to a new car it took a ton of work to reconfigure it to make t…

This is one of the real advantages to the (often insulted and/or chastised) vision only approach to FSD. People can easily adapt to different vehicles in a similar manner.

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 participate in a similar algorithm.

A bigger issue would be knowing the shape of the car to avoid clipping an obstacle.

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