Comment by nblgbg
3 years ago
Interesting bits ...
>>To create the video, the Tesla used 3D mapping on a predetermined route from a house in Menlo Park, California, to Tesla’s then-headquarters in Palo Alto
Remember they don't have the 3d maps, so they used a completely different car with different hardware to showcase it !
>>But the Model X was not driving itself with technology Tesla had deployed
>>When trying to show the Model X could park itself with no driver, a test car crashed into a fence in Tesla’s parking lot, he said.
Is it legal to falsify the claims ?
The part about the 3D map is particularly interesting. ELon Musk has made strong claims that machine vision, without LIDAR, radar, or acoustic ranging, is enough for FSD. In fact it can't even auto-park reliably.
Every AV project other than Tesla (and maybe geohotz's AV thing?) uses other types of sensors, especially LIDAR, and 3D mapping.
If it turns out that 3D maps and LIDAR are necessary to achieve L3 and higher, not only are Tesla cars not equipped to ever be AVs, the data Tesla has collected from their cars is much less valuable for developing and operating AVs.