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Elon Musk May Have Made a Huge Mistake on Full Self-Driving That It's Too Late to Correct. (futurism.com)

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The probe hones in on one of Tesla's most eyebrow-raising decisions when it comes to its driver assistance package: the insistence on exclusively relying on camera sensors instead of LiDAR and radar like its competitors, which CEO Elon Musk has long derided as a "crutch."

In 2022, the company went all-in on cameras, ditching ultrasonic sensors in its vehicles altogether — a decision that could prove to be a major mistake as it struggles to catch up with its competition and has now promised robust self-driving capabilities to owners who may lack the necessary sensor hardware.

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[–] DarkSurferZA 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Nope, not a legit argument. Augmented human driving is way safer than autonomous cars. Fun fact, the half assed approach to autonomy used in Tesla's are pretty shit, even by human standards.

Augmented driver assistance systems such as accident avoidance, preemptive braking and seatbelt tensioning systems still outperform current generation "fully" autonomous cars. The fact that we let billionaires develop their tech, for profit, in production (on the road), with a direct cost to human life, should always be a problem.

If he really wants to change the world, pay for the damn R&D, then deploy to the roads.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

luckily we can do more than one thing at a time implementing where each makes the most sense.

everyone keeps saying 'no! its this one thing or dont bother!' no, thats not how progress is made.

im not arguing for tesla, tesla is objectively garbage.