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Elon Musk Suddenly Realizes That Teslas With "Self-Driving" Computers May Never Be Able to Actually Self-Drive (futurism.com)

submitted 2 days ago by VantaBrandon@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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"Translation: all the times Tesla has vowed that all of its vehicles would soon be capable of fully driving themselves may have been a convenient act of salesmanship that ultimately turned out not to be true."

Another way to say that, is Tesla scammed all of their customers, since you know, everyone saw this coming...

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[–] Eranziel@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I agree that LIDAR or radar are better solutions than image recognition. I mean, that's literally what those technologies are for.

But even then, that's not enough. LIDAR/radar can't help it identify its lane in inclement weather, drive well on gravel, and so on. These are the kinds of problems where automakers severely downplay the difficulty of the problem and just how much a human driver does.

[–] III@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

It isn't a matter of which is better - you use both, and more.