Volvo just abandoned LIDAR.
On a different note TIL learned that Tesla uses the raw camera sensor data and creates an occupancy network, instead of using images and object detection, which feels like to me that Tesla isn't really using vision.
On a different note TIL learned that Tesla uses the raw camera sensor data and creates an occupancy network, instead of using images and object detection, which feels like to me that Tesla isn't really using vision.
Except that 1) isn't possible with the cameras they're using, and 2) even if it was, wouldn't be possible in an "open" environment, like "outside a vehicle".
https://insideevs.com/news/773202/volvo-ex90-software-issues...
-- Volvo is upgrading the central computer on all 2025 EX90s for free.
-- The company has spent over a year trying to squash software bugs in the EX90, but owners are still reporting serious issues and glitches.
-- One owner told InsideEVs that her EX90 has been a "dumpster fire inside a train wreck."> One owner told InsideEVs that her EX90 has been a "dumpster fire inside a train wreck."
Quite the anecdote, surely Tesla has never had an owner say that!
https://www.thedrive.com/news/volvo-ex90s-lidar-sensor-will-...