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by jacquesm
872 days ago
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Peripheral vision extends widely outside of the angle that a typical display affords and moving your head enough to see the mirrors in the car will bring a much larger area to the left of you in view. You can't simulate that with a display in front of your head to the degree necessary that it makes up for the losses. I think this idea is a complete non-starter. Note that 'heads up' displays improve safety because you no longer have to change your focus for nearby and far while driving (dashboard dials, navigation, vs what's happening in front of you). This does the exact opposite, it removes your ability to see what is going on and then replaces that with a bunch of bits. You're a software glitch away from an accident and with all respect to my fellow software developers I don't consider any of us competent enough to get that right to the point that you can potentially unleash that onto a billion drivers and not expect utter carnage. |
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Software or hardware glitch. Or power glitch.
R1 runs an RTOS, though, passthrough continues to run even if the main processor (the M2) completely crashes. So it already seems to try to fail safe. I can't imagine that's by accident. Maybe it's not that they're going to use the Vision Pro in these situations, but that maybe they might use the R1 or a future generation of it for their self-driving cars.