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Comment by martin_a | Hacker News Reader

This is a strange advertisement for LiDAR or a strange hit into Teslas' direction.

Also it looks like only unknown brands are to integrate LiDAR tech.

What about the big brands? Do $bigbrand cars with collision detection/emergency braking assistants stop for children? Which technology do they use if not?

I don't get the point.

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AFAIK, it is well-known in the industry that Tesla is the only relevant vendor (or at least one of the few) betting on video-only. A couple of years ago, this looked (while risky) more reasonable, given the hype around deep learning-based image recognition (combined with the assumption that humans primarily rely on video). But I suppose most vendors assumed even then that video-only won't be able to handle all edge cases, like bringing a car to a safe stop in case video is non-workable in an extreme situation.

Ok, so we put 15 other cars in a row next to the Tesla and that other car and they will probably (hopefully) all stop and the Tesla will not. That's a serious issue with Tesla then, I see.

On the other hand: It proves nothing for LiDAR technology, integrated in some strange non-brand cars, when all the other brands get the same result without LiDAR.

As others have pointed out, it seems like the author of the tweet has its own agenda, also the test conditions are obviously not the same and whatnot.

This is pure BS at this point.

I'm not sure why the Author only listed Volvo, but at least Mercedes and most VAG vehicles use LiDAR, too.

Ah, I didn't even spot Volvo and Cadillac between all those brands that sound like they are trying to sell USB hubs and t-shirts on Amazon.

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