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New Footage Shows Tesla On Autopilot Crashing Into Police Car After Alerting Driver 150 Times (www.carscoops.com)
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New Footage Shows Tesla On Autopilot Crashing Into Police Car After Alerting Driver 150 Times::Six officers who were injured in the crash are suing Tesla despite the fact that the driver was allegedly impaired

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[–] 49 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Your relatively 'dumb' car probably doesn't try to gauge distance exclusively by interpreting visual data from cameras.

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  • [–] 18 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Wait, the Model X doesn’t have RADAR/LIDAR to supplement the cameras?

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  • [–] 23 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Nope. For whatever reason, Musk decided to just use cameras

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago*

    A few years ago, they were experimenting with LIDAR (most other car makers had it already then).

    Then they abandoned it, even though everyone in the world thought that they need it so badly.

    Now we see one of the results.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    No, they were too expensive for Musk

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  • [+] 1 point 3 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)
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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago

    IIRC Tesla disabled all of their dedicated hardware sensors in an OTA update, due to these sensors being excluded from new vehicles manufactured during the shortage. The autopilot system is vision only now, despite the engineers best efforts to keep hardware sensors in the vehicles

    https://www.tesla.com/support/transitioning-tesla-vision

    https://carbuzz.com/news/tesla-scrapping-radar-plans-and-upgrading-older-cars-to-tesla-vision (Sensationalised but contains additional details missing from Tesla's site)

    The changes are being rolled out with the latest over-the-air (OTA) Tesla update 2022.20.9 confirmed for Model X, Model S, and Model Y. The update is adding Tesla Vision to the older vehicles equipped with radar

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