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by quantumduck
1554 days ago
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I agree that there are pretty big advantages to start with maximal set of sensors, but that is true only when you are a company with the sole goal of trying to make autonomy stack with shit ton of money and a product that you can modify because you own it. That's not true in the case of Tesla. They started as a EV company that offered autonomy later and since they were selling the product, they had to decide a minimal set of sensors that would, in theory, still work to keep the product cost reasonable. Tesla does have a sizeable 3D ground truth; they collected tons of data mounting LiDAR on their test vehicles. |
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"Sizable" for evaluating safety has to be big enough to give small confidence intervals on your error -- and with self-driving, you need to cover a robust set of rare scenarios upsampled from general driving as well. I really doubt Tesla has what they need to convince themselves of higher levels of safety.