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by petermcneeley 269 days ago
And yet the humans detected it without lidar?
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Human eyes are better by most metrics than any camera, and certainly any camera which costs less than a car. Also, obviously, our visual processing is, by most metrics, so much better than the best CV (never mind the sort of CV that can run realtime in a car) that it's not even funny.
they're making fun of Tesla, which stopped putting radar (ed: I misremembered, thanks to the commenter below) in their cars during the pandemic when it got expensive and instead of saying "we can't afford it", claimed it's actually better to not have lidar and just rely on cameras
Tesla has never had LIDAR on production cars, only mapping/ground truth and test vehicles. It was radar that disappeared during the pandemic.