Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by chinhodado 2928 days ago
Can you explain further what "poor angular resolution" means?
4 comments

It's good at determining whether something is moving towards it or away from it, but bad at determining where that object is; whether it's directly in front or slightly to the left or far to the left. Its "vision" in that sense is blurry.
That if Tesla were to release a side-by-side comparison of a regular photo versus what the radar sees, people would be screaming bloody murder.

Imagine an image smeared out like on a 15 year old Nokia picture phone, but with very high colour(velocity) precision. That is what a radar sees.

Poor angular resolution means you can't tell if an object is at 12 o'clock vs 1 o'clock. It means you can tell there are things, but you don't accurately know what angle they're at.
It cannot see small details. So it probably "sees" another car as a blurred spot and only when it is close.