[FireBeyond]

And now he's peddling more horseshit and expecting the public and investors to swallow it:

> One analyst asked about the reliability of Tesla’s cameras when confronting sun glare, fog, or dust. Musk claimed that the company’s vision system bypasses image processing and instead uses direct photon counting to account for “noise” like glare or dust.

I call bullshit. Photon counting requires specialized cameras that are simply not present on Teslas. Not to mention lab conditions (so you can direct photons at your sensor, versus you know, scattering into the atmosphere...) And that don't do anywhere near as well at regular image processing, for that reason.

But Musk thinks you're not smart enough to know this.

[queenkjuul]

So much of the stuff he's said about rockets is designed the same way, to sound smart to people who don't know any better.

Surely photon detection wouldn't be cheaper than LIDAR, given it's impossible to mount to a car lol

[adastra22]

The innovative stuff SpaceX has done is actually smart. I can't speak to anything else that Elon is working on, but he is actually a competent rocket engineer.