Tesla cars are selling faster than they can make them and adding a Radar will slow down the manufacturing, not make it faster.
Tesla told the FCC that it plans to market a new radar starting next month.
https://electrek.co/2022/12/06/tesla-radar-car-next-month-se...
If this is true, why are they reportedly cutting production and offering incentives? If they were booked solid, no incentives would be needed.
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-...
> Radar will slow down the manufacturing, not make it faster.
? They are adding radar, though: https://electrek.co/2022/12/06/tesla-radar-car-next-month-se...
I just don't believe that you can infer the dimensions of objects using stereoscopic images with a reliability that you need to make FSD work.
And also having a computer behind them that deeply understands what an object is, the forms it should take and what its expected behaviour should be. We don’t ever confuse billboards for real people.
Fair but to compensate the car has many more cameras than we do.
On top of that these cameras can't move, can't be re-aimed, and have generally far worse dynamic range than our eyes.
Also, when you're in the car, you probably move your head more than you realize. Moving your head around and looking around also gives you better understandings of distance. Far more than a couple of cameras feeding a few megapixel images into a ML model.
This utter disaster of a situation leads to 10000s of deaths that has well known solutions.
But instead of preventing these deaths with well known low tech solution, a super expensive technological holy grail is gone somehow fix those problems.
> One of the scariest parts about Tesla is that they don't even seem to know what they don't know.
I'm curious what the reference here is? Again, are you taking coverage of Waymo's test environment as evience of its absence at its competitors?
Waymo describes in detail how they test their algorithm against specific scenarios and makes statements about those experiments.
One company is trying to sell you cars and telling you what you want to hear, the other company is extremely careful with their statements.
How? The only problem with this page[0] is that they haven’t released 2022 stats. Otherwise:
> To ensure our statistics are conservative, we count any crash in which Autopilot was deactivated within 5 seconds before impact, and we count all crashes in which the incident alert indicated an airbag or other active restraint deployed.
This is a press release, not a safety report.
And those are the mistakes that they were willing to show! To be clear, I mean situations where the driver needed to take over but either didn't, or didn't in sufficient time to avoid an illegal or dangerous maneuver.
Having said that, he's also been really clear that the video doesn't always make it obvious just how many aspects of FSD are just plain weird. Even when its not actively failing, it moves in odd ways that are uncomfortable.
He's also said that earlier versions resulted in curbed wheels.
Tesla's cameras have huge blind spots near the car and aren't stereoscopic in all directions. They had ultrasonic sensors at one time, but those had blind spots and major limitations too.
GM has Milford and Yuma + others, Waymo has Castle, Zoox uses Altamont Raceway, Nuro has a track at the Vegas speedway. I can't imagine Tesla's small Fremont loop and their winter track in Fairbanks are sufficient.
Do we actually know that this is true? October of last year "internal QA" found regressions on an already public release and they rolled out an update in less than 24 hours after that was published. Both the fact that it was already public when QA found an issue and that they were able to push new public version in such a short time seems to me like they don't necessarily have a release gauntlet for each version, or at least not a very robust one.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/25/tesla-rolled-back-fsd-beta-v...
People can scream bloody murder till the cows come home, but Tesla for all its faults is king of the hill - literally more valuable the rest of the car industry combined. Musk is the invincible and irrespective of any shortcomings he's literally the richest person on Earth.
Tesla's approach is demonstrably the best approach in the court of the customer, irrespective of what we (others on the road) think or are put at risk.
Not anymore https://www.bbc.com/news/business-63963239
Tesla's market share is eroding every year, and is expected to decline to less than 20% by 2025.
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/29/teslas-dominance-of-evs-is-e....
There are plenty of people like me, who are choosing non-Teslas when they buy EVs.