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by bmicraft 618 days ago
Yeah okay, but that doesn't mean _cameras_ are bad (which, to be fair, they are in Teslas case), it means the algorithms feeding on them are.
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Alupis 618 days ago
It means the cameras can be fooled by things LIDAR cannot be. Such as smoke, glare, reflections, optical illusions/mirage, etc.

If the algorithms are fed with incorrect data, they will produce incorrect results - such as driving full-speed into a parked, white colored, semi-truck.

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bmicraft 617 days ago
And lidar can't tell the difference between a plastic bag and a rock, what's your point?
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Alupis 616 days ago
One can (and has been) fooled into thinking there is no object in the path - the other might be extra sensitive to any object in it's path.

I'll let you stew on that one for a minute...

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bmicraft 616 days ago
> I'll let you stew on that one for a minute...

Then that means the vision processing isn't far along yet to be viable for a car. There is no fundamental reason why it couldn't work though. With either stereoscopic vision or more temporal processing you could obviously detect when things are only painted on a wall surface, with both there really is no excuse to still fail except limited processing power.

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