I recall it mentioned somewhere that, after a well publicized tragedy hitting the side of a white truck on a bright day, Tesla was moving to radar?
And yet a lot of the cues this awesome video shows seems to be camera-based line detection etc?
Also interesting is the vision fps of ~13. That's 75ms latency.
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/06/why-emergency-braking-s...
If you simply refer to it being called "autopilot", cmon that's not too serious. The word "autopilot" does not automatically mean that it is full self-driving. None of the Tesla drivers or potential Tesla buyers realistically think that it has level 5 self-driving yet.
UPD: The buy page literally says:
"The currently enabled features require active driver supervision and do not make the vehicle autonomous. The activation and use of these features are dependent on achieving reliability far in excess of human drivers as demonstrated by billions of miles of experience, as well as regulatory approval, which may take longer in some jurisdictions. As these self-driving features evolve, your car will be continuously upgraded through over-the-air software updates."
The Model 3 Builder literally says: "Full Self-Driving Capability".
Oh and how about "The currently enabled features require active driver supervision and do not make the vehicle autonomous. The activation and use of these features are dependent on achieving reliability far in excess of human drivers as demonstrated by billions of miles of experience, as well as regulatory approval, which may take longer in some jurisdictions. As these self-driving features evolve, your car will be continuously upgraded through over-the-air software updates.".
- Which I just copy-pasted from the exact page you are talking about. Who is being disingenious here?
I honestly don't think that there is any significant number of potential buyers who go onto a website to buy a car, and pull one sentence from that page out of context, ignore the rest of the text and then make their decision based on that.
> Summon: your parked car will come find you anywhere in a parking lot. Really.
(It may plow into a street to do so, but hey. And you should really have "full attention" on the car. Unless you're reading our marketing copy which says to feel free to "attend to a fussy child")
and so on. Ninety per cent of the length of that page is selling promises that aren't there yet, and the fine print at the bottom is taking most of it away, for some indeterminate period of time.
Adaptive ("Traffic-aware") cruise control is actually an Autopilot feature, not FSD. Of course, Autopilot is a debatable name in itself, but Tesla does not market cruise control as FSD, at least not anymore. (I don't know if they ever did or not — honestly I didn't follow Tesla news until like 3 months ago.)
The closest thing to self-driving you get with the FSD package is "Navigate on Autopilot", which is something akin to "self-driving on highways only in good weather conditions". It can also drive around a parking lot on its own if you're supervising it, and it can supposedly park itself, though I've heard Autopark does not work well.
In general, though, the art of combining information from multiple sensors is called sensor fusion and its a fairly well understood problem. Well, sometimes even good engineers make mistakes, see Schiaparelli and the saturated Kalman filter inputs, but we have a good idea of what those mistakes can be for different schema.
EDIT: Mistyped radar as lidar, fixed.
And I assure you that sensor fusion is not a well understood problem. One of the biggest challenges in autonomous driving is how to unify all of the different NN outputs.