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by gonehome 1138 days ago
Yeah, adding sensors can sometimes make things worse.
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Example? There are plenty of examples where mistakes that Tesla's cameras make (being blinded by the sun, having trouble with emergency vehicles) are no problem for systems with more sensors.
This talk was worth watching (any Karpathy or Carmack talk is imo): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6bOwQdCJrc

Specifically this is the relevant part: https://youtu.be/g6bOwQdCJrc?t=1370

They removed radar because it was making things worse.

I interpreted that statement by Karpathy as an accidental admission of Tesla's own limitations and not of the approach itself. (Note: I'm upvoting all your comments because they're very reasonable and supported.)