I saw the video pop up in my Youtube recommended, but didn't bother watching because I just assumed that any cars tested would be using LIDAR and thus would ignore the fake road just fine. I had no idea Tesla a) was still using basic cameras for this and b) actually had sophisticated enough "self driving" capabilities that this could be tested on them safely.
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They tested a LiDAR rigged car, and it stopped just like you predicted. As of 2021, Tesla uses only cameras for FSD, and not even radar (which my stupid fine Toyota truck has).
They tested the idea safely by building the wall out of styrofoam, or at least that's what it looks like when it blows apart :)
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Forget lidar, they don't even have mature tech like radar for emergency braking. Edit: +even
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Clearly we don't need lidar!
Direct video link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQJL3htsDyQ
"But humans can do it with their eyes!" - says the man not selling a human brain to go with the optical sensors
“But humans can do it with their eyes!”
That's the best part, they kinda can't.
There are videos from before they pulled the sensors of some pretty cool stuff where teslas slammed the breaks before anything visibly happened, based on lidar sensors sensing trouble a couple cars up the road, completely blocked to vision.
super cool safety tech, and then they pulled it....
one example here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIcC2ZMePKI
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The day I heard that was the day I realized he's a fucking idiot and I wanted nothing to do with his cars/tech.
Judging by how things have turned out...damn was that a good decision lmao
Absolutely the same timing for me. That was a big, oh that’s his logic?, moment.
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Still think LIDAR is inferior to computer vision, Elon?
He never thought about it in the first place.
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I am a bit disappointed to not see the Tesla crash into a real wall. I feel a bit click baited here.
Also, they prepared the polystyrene wall to break this cartoonishly, but still played on being surprised.
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The war against AI will be fought with Looney Tunes bits.
I would say that it's a good idea to paint more tunnels on walls, but then I remember how dumb human drivers are too
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