Cruise is opening driverless cars to the public in San Francisco

Post by kelnos » Fri, Feb 04, 2022, 7:43 AM UTC

polkadotmatrix wrote: post #106

kelnos wrote: post #42

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Got a source for that? I searched around and couldn't find anything with him saying that.

https://youtu.be/dmvZBiWYkFQ?t=242 “I want to bring my little son along on this ride, but obviously that’s not where we’re at today.” edit: Fixed link

Not sure that means what you think it means. He might not have had regulatory or insurance permission to take non-employees in the car. Or it was just company policy to not allow family members (which would seem to be prudent before getting approval for general use), and he's being good and not using his position as CEO to get around the rules.

Post by GeorgeTirebiter » Sat, Feb 05, 2022, 5:54 AM UTC

XorNot wrote: post #530

GeorgeTirebiter wrote: post #242

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An extremely wise set of decisions. I also see no reason, a priori, to 'blind' a vehicle to certain spectra of EM emissions; nor to accept that only passive sensing (cameras) can be used, when Active Sensing (probing, if you will) that Radar and LiDAR use is clearly giving the control computers more information about Reality (tm). By using all (or almost all) available Active and Passive sensing technologies, fused w…

One argument would be that once you have many vehicles operating with LIDAR, it's unclear which systems are sufficiently robust against being disrupted by interference from other systems. Same with RADAR - while this is not new technology, we've never really had a regime with potentially dozens of systems operating in close proximity. For all Tesla's problems, the automation-via-cameras solution is the one I find mys…

Generally, you solve this problem by using different (randomized) wavelengths, modulation (e.g. pulsed in a pattern), or if interference is inevitable, do something like WiFi or BLE does. It's not a big problem in practice.

I can only suggest you think harder about the 'all cameras' approach. Imagine say a snowstorm. Hail. Rain. Ice sheets. Sun in your 'eyes'. Cameras, basically, suck. Elon's game is to use suck-tech and make it un-suck with computons. Bad Choice.

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