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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 3 weeks 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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[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 83 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

"Trust me, you just need to buy more compute for your car. We'll figure out reliable driving by sight someday."

[–] RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 39 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm happily using all the sensors my car offers, even if I'm pretty ok with driving by eyesight. Better sensors that can easily see through fog/rain/snow/whatever? Hell yeah, give them to me.

[–] Gawdl3y@pawb.social 11 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

LiDAR in particular actually kinda sucks at those conditions (basically any form of precipitation). It's really only good in clear environments.

[–] tate@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

LiDAR can be done with different wavelengths. It should be possible to make one that can see through rain and snow.

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

If you shift the spectrum enough, you get Radar.

[–] tate@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 weeks ago

Agreed. But you don't have to go that far to make rain and snow transparent. And radar might not be a bad idea to have on self driving cars, as long as it's not the only thing.