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by DennisP 335 days ago
My head contains intelligence hardware that far outstrips anything in these cars. Plus my cameras are a lot better.

Despite all this, a lot of modern cars are adding lidar to make things easier for me.

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Your "cameras" have about 20 MP of active resolution between the two of them. With dead zones and pixels spread out unevenly. A modern smartphone has you beat.

There's a small, sharp, high resolution color-enabled area in each eye - but the bulk of your vision field is monochrome, and mostly sensitive to motion.

You don't notice that, because your image data is stacked and post-processed to shit to make it presentable. Your brain has been doing computational photography before it was cool - 90% of what you see at any moment in time is effectively AI-generated.