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by aeternum 1770 days ago
>If both systems agree, then you have additional reliability.

Andrej covered this in a previous talk. If both systems agree, then nothing would be different if you did not have the 2nd system. If the systems do not agree then you ultimately still have to pick one in most scenarios.

IE if you are travelling down the highway at 80mph with a car close behind and your lidar+radar system says there's an immediate obstacle but your vision system says it's an overpass, do you emergency brake?

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I see, I was thinking about instances where it crashes into pillars which would be pretty obvious case for disgareement between vision and LIDAR. It would alert the driver to take control instead to crashing into it. Tesla autopilot has some scary corner cases where LIDAR can be a backup system for human intervention. But, for FSD level 5 - it's a different story.